From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Edward O'Connor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Rant: key sequences aren't specified in the elisp manual. Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 15:17:12 -0800 Organization: Church of Emacs 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 1132269827 28108 80.91.229.2 (17 Nov 2005 23:23:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 23:23:47 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 18 00:23:46 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ect4F-0002ga-CI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 00:21:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ect4E-0007kX-Ot for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 18:21:22 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ect40-0007kS-Nz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 18:21:08 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ect3y-0007iX-Mf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 18:21:08 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ect3y-0007iT-Dk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 18:21:06 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA:16) (Exim 4.34) id 1Ect3y-0000DB-5S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 18:21:06 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Ect1f-0001cH-U3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 00:18:43 +0100 Original-Received: from rrcs-67-52-157-90.west.biz.rr.com ([67.52.157.90]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 00:18:43 +0100 Original-Received: from hober0 by rrcs-67-52-157-90.west.biz.rr.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 00:18:43 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: rrcs-67-52-157-90.west.biz.rr.com Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAHlBMVEX47PoBAAegiLwiH1N IQYI0M4iMeKYBAAYGBBGqm9JF4g0mAAACYElEQVR4nGWTsY/aMBTGLXoLo8WQjNVrFJXxzviUbig JEcy5SNft5LhRGT3RNecUuRuiCMn/bZ+dhHDqJ2SZ7+f3nt/DEMOcqv9E9AdQTsD7fPw6hRIz+iw xxuhbMBn3SUtRofk95CTa9D49UIWiRvt4TnTiNmUbHIIDykUxdwm8lTvQUmergwoCpXR/qwojXqk 7jTEK1xANXhKOgD8eRmHggrt2CNKKtfcAU3EHkCbB5OJn4Ws40Prco6jhAyiDoSyeTrAb1gNe+dI eKNVlpvXNE5+pT6HUIjEi24a8B6XvjSrd0rCon5vCDwX7eA2wvV9bqrPWdCAFZBtfA0tQRWmRsE6 uZCMA6qYHbRDg6I5RlxVSFNCISG56QB3oIBNSRKL+JuLMg9LZlGqIUhCFlH9m8FN74GxFQwEFxKm crWYQJQ680v43TSEGEDArAWLJPVAObN8BHDghhrwcI1RYH2GSLMfiKnzWd6DGx4DvwNc41mIC0QQ WqzgXH0HV+kvVoohvIB5AaHRSyCZHyzawtOd4SBUyXR9lxOb2RB7Sz4T0AB8zY/smvWzRIrN0OQL GcsbW8zf7dY1gfsIlZm66JUsdOK3ljjjNCbnoHuxq9jQnb+TkAa6XY0XyJmf7C1uRwfbk4b0m1tr 8+zljb+ROD0+xA9f4umHP9+CTAAesjfGPWNyBvzCAc5ax/I40CFJPvkQrC/vRP+NsiC58LpGKfWH 7Ppy/JMY8ObK0AJfTRUDTz5eQxHS2VxPlG1697N0ee4qSbjeQ64bjc94Nhex1b+2N5Hn1MoJJwlp pf1Rr7/8DXitGHanPc2gAAAAASUVORK5CYII= X-Attribution: Ted User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:qdAUY5nesfe+2PQyKE7mscUo8ZM= 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:46187 Archived-At: Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hi, Emacs! > > I've just spent ~ 2 hours trying to figure out from the elisp manual the > various ways of binding the key sequence "control-C control-backspace". [...] > In fact, I figured out "[?\C-c \C-backspace]" by just such > experimentation. Trouble is, this is rejected by XEmacs, and I want the > specification to be portable. I should think (kbd "C-c C-DEL") would DTRT under both Emacsen. Ted -- Edward O'Connor hober0@gmail.com Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem.