Re: What is the purpose of "To bind the key M-DEL, use "\M\d", not M-DEL"

["Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>]

Stephen Leake wrote:
> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
>
>   
>>     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.
>>
>> At the Lisp level it is better to teach Lisp programmers the correct
>> rules than to try to DWIM.
>>     
>
> (global-set-key [M-del] nil)
>
> works, and you seem to imply that is the correct syntax, or at least
> acceptable syntax.
>   

This is very confusing. Did you actually try if the binding work? I get 
no error message with this variant, but the binding is not on the key we 
are talking about AFAICS.