From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Robert J. Chassell" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: rcirc manual Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 17:47:34 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <87ek3hgunn.fsf@killalla.dreaming> Reply-To: bob@rattlesnake.com NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1137266006 19914 80.91.229.2 (14 Jan 2006 19:13:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 19:13:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: karl@freefriends.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 14 20:13:23 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 1Exqps-0005Lt-FR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Jan 2006 20:13:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Exqs3-0002kb-Cr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Jan 2006 14:15:27 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ExpXK-00057q-4Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Jan 2006 12:49:58 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ExpXI-00057J-Pg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Jan 2006 12:49:57 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ExpXH-00056t-VG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Jan 2006 12:49:56 -0500 Original-Received: from [69.168.108.225] (helo=rattlesnake.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1ExpaS-0003KJ-CX; Sat, 14 Jan 2006 12:53:12 -0500 Original-Received: by rattlesnake.com via sendmail from stdin id (Debian Smail3.2.0.115) Sat, 14 Jan 2006 17:47:34 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-reply-to: (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sat, 14 Jan 2006 17:10:03 +0200) 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:49090 Archived-At: AFAIU, @key{M-x} is wrong, since there's no key labeled "M-x". Ah ... I think of this as pressing the Meta key and the `X' key simultaneously. Thus, the Texinfo Manual does talk of these instances: (texinfo)key Use the `@key' command for the conventional name for a key on a keyboard ... However, this terminology may be confusing. Some people refer to a `keychord' when they speak of C-x or M-C-f. Perhaps the Texinfo node should be changed to `for a key or keychord' rather than simply `for a key'. However, the word `key' does have an established meaning. When I run `describe-bindings' in this *mail* buffer, `C-x' is labeled `key' and `Prefix Command' is labeled `binding'. Perhaps the phrase `keychord' should be used occasionally, as in (eintr)Note for Novices Sometimes a combination like this is called a keychord, since it is similar to the way you play a chord on a piano. But it seems to me that most of the time, the Texinfo Manual should follow the regular meaning of `key'. -- Robert J. Chassell bob@rattlesnake.com GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8 http://www.rattlesnake.com http://www.teak.cc