From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What is the purpose of "To bind the key M-DEL, use "\M\d", not M-DEL" Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 19:46:30 +0100 Message-ID: <459D4B86.6040408@gmail.com> References: <459C5681.60801@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1167936415 24124 80.91.229.12 (4 Jan 2007 18:46:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 18:46:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 04 19:46:52 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1H2Xc0-0007y7-W8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Jan 2007 19:46:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H2Xc0-0000VR-E1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Jan 2007 13:46:48 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H2Xbn-0000UW-La for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Jan 2007 13:46:35 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H2Xbm-0000U9-Ff for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Jan 2007 13:46:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H2Xbm-0000U4-97 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Jan 2007 13:46:34 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.76.149.213] (helo=ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1H2Xbk-0005jB-DX; Thu, 04 Jan 2007 13:46:32 -0500 Original-Received: from c83-254-145-24.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.145.24]:63069 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1H2Xbi-00039L-7u; Thu, 04 Jan 2007 19:46:30 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 0701-0, 2007-01-03), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1H2Xbi-00039L-7u. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1H2Xbi-00039L-7u fe05903796b4a06befd9de728e0aab33 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:64763 Archived-At: Richard Stallman wrote: > If you do > > (global-set-key [M-DEL] nil) > > you get the error in the subject line. > > DEL is not a meaningful function key since function key symbols are > lower case. So this has to be an error. > The error message could have said this of course, but it is not the whole story. > At the Lisp level it is better to teach Lisp programmers the correct > rules than to try to DWIM. > When I do C-h k Meta backspace on w32 the help buffer tells me M-DEL (translated from ) runs the command backward-kill-word which is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `simple.el'. It is bound to , M-DEL. Would it not be better if the error message we are talking about told me to bind [M-backspace] instead?