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: Fri, 05 Jan 2007 10:57:33 +0100 Message-ID: <459E210D.4070501@gmail.com> References: <459C5681.60801@gmail.com> <459D4B86.6040408@gmail.com> <86ejqa8ubs.fsf@rakim.cfhp.org> <459D554E.1020603@gmail.com> <459D9B1D.9020604@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1167991134 15345 80.91.229.12 (5 Jan 2007 09:58:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 09:58:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Edward O'Connor , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 05 10:58:48 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 1H2lq7-0007sq-5L for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Jan 2007 10:58:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H2lq6-0003Le-Md for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Jan 2007 04:58:18 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H2lpS-0003KR-NF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Jan 2007 04:57:39 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H2lpQ-0003JK-E7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Jan 2007 04:57:37 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H2lpP-0003J2-Tn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Jan 2007 04:57:36 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.76.149.212] (helo=ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1H2lpP-0003pt-C5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Jan 2007 04:57:35 -0500 Original-Received: from c83-254-145-24.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.145.24]:64571 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1H2lpM-0007lr-5r; Fri, 05 Jan 2007 10:57:33 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) Original-To: Andreas Schwab 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 1H2lpM-0007lr-5r. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1H2lpM-0007lr-5r 0c6819fb480b293bdc8d620ad6ea3b7a 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:64818 Archived-At: Andreas Schwab wrote: > "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" writes: > > >> I had to consult Webster to see what canonical really means .... >> > > See . > 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.