From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: Emacs-Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: key-binding values
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 00:14:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jezmqp4zf8.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DNEMKBNJBGPAOPIJOOICKEFCCMAA.drew.adams@oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Tue, 6 Sep 2005 10:15:03 -0700")
"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> > Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is that
> the form [?\C- ]
> > is generally preferred over the form "\C- ", for a key binding.
>
> These two key sequences represent quite different bindings.
> You can't get
> one override the other, it depends on the terminal which key you receive
> on typing C-space.
>
> Whenever either is acceptable, is one of the two preferred in Emacs-Lisp
> code, for binding keys? My understanding was that the vector form was
> preferred.
IMHO there is no real preference. The string notation can only represent
a limited set of keys, but is easier to read when it works.
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-06 22:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-06 15:50 key-binding values Drew Adams
2005-09-06 16:26 ` Andreas Schwab
2005-09-06 17:15 ` Drew Adams
2005-09-06 22:14 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2005-09-06 22:51 ` Edward O'Connor
2005-09-07 5:05 ` Richard M. Stallman
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