From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: xah@xahlee.org, 1111@debbugs.gnu.org, stefan@marxist.se,
npostavs@gmail.com
Subject: bug#1111: describe-key's key notation display inconsistency
Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2019 09:38:38 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83mugialn5.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <76f8d8ae-83ef-4062-881d-8e60a2a148a6@default> (message from Drew Adams on Thu, 8 Aug 2019 17:14:44 -0700 (PDT))
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Cc: xah lee <xah@xahlee.org>, 1111@debbugs.gnu.org,
> Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
>
> (elisp) `Function Keys':
>
> Function keys are represented in Emacs Lisp as
> symbols; the symbol's name is the function key's
> label, in lower case.
>
> For example, pressing a key labeled <F1> generates
> an input event represented by the symbol 'f1'.
>
> (Note: not the symbol `<f1>' - see my statement that
> I think the doc that says that the angle brackets
> are part of the event name is incorrect, per this
> doc passage.)
You are mixing keys with events produced by those keys and with the
description of those keys and events. They are all different.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-09 6:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-07 15:12 bug#1111: describe-key's key notation display inconsistency xah lee
2019-08-08 12:35 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-08-08 15:47 ` Drew Adams
2019-08-08 16:03 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-08-08 17:25 ` Drew Adams
2019-08-08 18:06 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-08-08 22:15 ` Drew Adams
2019-08-08 23:05 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-08-09 0:14 ` Drew Adams
2019-08-09 6:38 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-09-24 22:00 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-24 22:49 ` bug#1111: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-09-26 5:07 ` Xah Lee
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