Re: [External] : New key binding syntax

[Alexandre Garreau <galex-713@galex-713.eu>]

Le vendredi 19 novembre 2021, 08:40:14 CET Eli Zaretskii a écrit :
> > From: Alexandre Garreau <galex-713@galex-713.eu>
> > Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2021 07:05:12 +0100
> > Cc: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>, drew.adams@oracle.com
> > 
> > > I am against making this change in Emacs.
> > 
> > Why? everybody does that now and that’s strictly more recognizable for
> > most of people (especially newcomers) nowadays
> 
> Does that mean you want us to go through all our manuals and the
> tutorial, and change C-x and C-M-y into Ctrl+x and Ctrl+Alt+y?  And
> then change all the key-binding APIs to accept the above notation as
> well?  Because if we don't do that, there will be two very different
> ways of specifying key sequences, and that will confuse newcomers even
> more.

Yes, and as I said it would be even more nice to have a special syntax/
command in texinfo to specify keysequences, so they can be 
programmatically all be changed very easily, in case the user rebinds 
them, so not only emacs’ C-h is updated, but the info manual as well (and 
that could be useful as well for any software whose keys can and commonly 
are rebound)

So it would not only be useful to substitute a - with a +, but also whole 
key prefixes or keysequences with others