From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What is the purpose of "To bind the key M-DEL, use "\M\d", not M-DEL"
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 20:28:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <459D554E.1020603@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86ejqa8ubs.fsf@rakim.cfhp.org>
Edward O'Connor wrote:
>> When I do
>>
>> C-h k Meta backspace
>>
>> on w32 the help buffer tells me
>>
>> M-DEL (translated from <M-backspace>) runs the command
>> backward-kill-word
>> which is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `simple.el'.
>> It is bound to <C-backspace>, M-DEL.
>>
>> Would it not be better if the error message we are talking about told
>> me to bind [M-backspace] instead?
>>
>
> Personally, I think this is a great argument for (kbd "M-DEL").
>
>
> Ted
>
Which actually works, yes. But isn't there a point in telling about
M-backspace instead since M-DEL is made in the platform specific
translation in function-key-map?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-04 19:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-04 1:21 What is the purpose of "To bind the key M-DEL, use "\M\d", not M-DEL" Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-01-04 17:58 ` Richard Stallman
2007-01-04 18:19 ` Drew Adams
2007-01-04 18:46 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-01-04 18:53 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-01-04 19:04 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-01-04 19:28 ` Edward O'Connor
2007-01-04 19:28 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail) [this message]
2007-01-04 20:02 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-01-05 0:26 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-01-05 9:49 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-01-05 9:57 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-01-05 19:09 ` Richard Stallman
2007-01-05 0:31 ` Richard Stallman
2007-01-05 7:18 ` Stephen Leake
2007-01-05 9:11 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-01-06 2:54 ` Richard Stallman
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