From: Edward O'Connor <hober0@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: What is the purpose of "To bind the key M-DEL, use "\M\d", not M-DEL"
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 14:28:55 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86ejqa8ubs.fsf@rakim.cfhp.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 459D4B86.6040408@gmail.com
> 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
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Edward O'Connor
hober0@gmail.com
Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem.
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 [this message]
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)
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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