Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:


Lars -- I agree in principle, but I think the details matter; let's
rephrase as "We dont need to or even *shouldn't* plan to support *every*
syntactic nuance used by kbd".

Many of the weird corner cases that kbd supports --- likely mostly by
accident --- will never be typed by users in their emacs configuration.


> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> If we are going to relegate the old syntax to "permanently deprecated"
>> as I recommend, we can design a new syntax, whichever syntax we like.
>> It doesn't have to use the function `kbd'.
>
> The syntax that `kbd' understands is the one that we're using to display
> keystrokes in help texts and manuals, so inventing another syntax for
> defining keys doesn't seem productive.

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Thanks,

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