From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: confusion with defining keys Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 15:59:23 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87y4x2xm84.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <8761k8hw8s.fsf@yun.yagibdah.de> <87mwdjsejg.fsf@debian.uxu> <87sina6h4x.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1402581629 27437 80.91.229.3 (12 Jun 2014 14:00:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 14:00:29 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 12 16:00:25 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Wv5YA-0002Ih-If for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Jun 2014 16:00:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54107 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wv5YA-0008MF-82 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Jun 2014 10:00:18 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed4a.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!news.stack.nl!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 25 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: SIvZRMPqRkkTHAHL6NkRuw.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:g9gtV7xRS68CS9rPLfRyVez/1Dk= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:205902 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:98172 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: > What you write between [...] does not use the same > syntax as what's written in "..." (and neither is the > same as what's written in (kbd "...")). OK! In a way it makes sense for three different syntaxes as otherwise why have three different ways of delimiting it? But in another way why does it make sense to have three different syntaxes to begin with? Is this something that happened along the way? I guess the (kbd "...") is the most Lispic but I like compact syntax - and [...] makes it look like a button at that! Only you have to add a font-lock rule to get a highlight... -- underground experts united: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573