From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What're the proper names for the backspace and delete keys in files.texi? Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 12:39:44 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1137433585 11368 80.91.229.2 (16 Jan 2006 17:46:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:46:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 16 18:46:23 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EyYQk-0001hG-8W for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Jan 2006 18:46:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EyYT2-0003cq-JL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Jan 2006 12:48:32 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EyVsR-00031o-5E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Jan 2006 10:02:35 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EyUuD-0006BU-7G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Jan 2006 09:00:23 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EyURm-0001XZ-CR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Jan 2006 08:30:59 -0500 Original-Received: from [193.149.49.134] (helo=acm.acm) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EyUVE-0002QM-58; Mon, 16 Jan 2006 08:34:33 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (root@localhost) by acm.acm (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA00580; Mon, 16 Jan 2006 12:39:45 GMT X-Sender: root@acm.acm Original-To: "Richard M. Stallman" In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:49174 Archived-At: Hi, Richard, Hi, Emacs! On Tue, 20 Dec 2005, Richard M. Stallman wrote: > In the Emacs manual, the key (the one that deletes backwards) > seems sometimes to be called @key{BS}, and at other times @key{BACKSPACE} > or @key{DEL}. >Those are not synonymous. The chapter on Killing explains the difference. For the third time of asking, would somebody (Richard?) please state definitively what the canonical names, to be used in files.texi, are for the "backspace" key (typically the large rectangular key above CR that deletes a single character backwards) and the "delete" key (typically the bottom leftmost key of a block of 6 keys directly to the right of CR, that deletes a single character forwards). I think the canonical names for these keys are, respectively, @key{DEL} and @key{DELETE} (with exactly that capitalization), but I'm not sure. I want to amend the CC Mode manual to use the standard names for these two keys. >We worked for a long time to get this consistent and (more or less) >clear. Now I want to leave it alone. -- Alan Mackenzie (Munich, Germany)