From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
Cc: Edward O'Connor <hober0@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What is the purpose of "To bind the key M-DEL, use "\M\d", not M-DEL"
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2007 10:57:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <459E210D.4070501@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <je8xgh3is6.fsf@sykes.suse.de>
Andreas Schwab wrote:
> "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:
>
>
>> I had to consult Webster to see what canonical really means ....
>>
>
> See <http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/C/canonical.html>.
>
Thanks ;-)
>
>> Now let me see if I understand this... - here is then another question
>> around this:
>>
>> As I understand it now the preferable way to define a key is (of course)
>> always to use a canonical representation. Maybe it even can not be done in
>> any other way?
>>
>
> The canonical representation is the one that works on most if not all
> systems (with tty input normally being the most restrictive). All other
> representations of the key are supposed to be translated through
> function-key-map.
>
But then there are string representations too.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-05 9:57 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)
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) [this message]
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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