From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Edward O'Connor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel 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 Organization: Church of Emacs Message-ID: <86ejqa8ubs.fsf@rakim.cfhp.org> References: <459C5681.60801@gmail.com> <459D4B86.6040408@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1167938370 31744 80.91.229.12 (4 Jan 2007 19:19:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 19:19:30 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 04 20:19:24 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 1H2Y7R-0001I6-CJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Jan 2007 20:19:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H2Y7Q-00022x-MI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Jan 2007 14:19:16 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H2Y74-0001wS-Ur for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Jan 2007 14:18:55 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H2Y70-0001qd-Jp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Jan 2007 14:18:51 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H2Y70-0001qD-2o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Jan 2007 14:18:50 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1H2Y6y-00048g-O4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Jan 2007 14:18:49 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1H2Y6q-0001bz-Rh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Jan 2007 20:18:40 +0100 Original-Received: from rakim.cfhp.org ([69.45.6.105]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 04 Jan 2007 20:18:40 +0100 Original-Received: from hober0 by rakim.cfhp.org with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 04 Jan 2007 20:18:40 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: rakim.cfhp.org Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAHlBMVEX47PoBAAegiLwiH1N IQYI0M4iMeKYBAAYGBBGqm9JF4g0mAAACYElEQVR4nGWTsY/aMBTGLXoLo8WQjNVrFJXxzviUbig JEcy5SNft5LhRGT3RNecUuRuiCMn/bZ+dhHDqJ2SZ7+f3nt/DEMOcqv9E9AdQTsD7fPw6hRIz+iw xxuhbMBn3SUtRofk95CTa9D49UIWiRvt4TnTiNmUbHIIDykUxdwm8lTvQUmergwoCpXR/qwojXqk 7jTEK1xANXhKOgD8eRmHggrt2CNKKtfcAU3EHkCbB5OJn4Ws40Prco6jhAyiDoSyeTrAb1gNe+dI eKNVlpvXNE5+pT6HUIjEi24a8B6XvjSrd0rCon5vCDwX7eA2wvV9bqrPWdCAFZBtfA0tQRWmRsE6 uZCMA6qYHbRDg6I5RlxVSFNCISG56QB3oIBNSRKL+JuLMg9LZlGqIUhCFlH9m8FN74GxFQwEFxKm crWYQJQ680v43TSEGEDArAWLJPVAObN8BHDghhrwcI1RYH2GSLMfiKnzWd6DGx4DvwNc41mIC0QQ WqzgXH0HV+kvVoohvIB5AaHRSyCZHyzawtOd4SBUyXR9lxOb2RB7Sz4T0AB8zY/smvWzRIrN0OQL GcsbW8zf7dY1gfsIlZm66JUsdOK3ljjjNCbnoHuxq9jQnb+TkAa6XY0XyJmf7C1uRwfbk4b0m1tr 8+zljb+ROD0+xA9f4umHP9+CTAAesjfGPWNyBvzCAc5ax/I40CFJPvkQrC/vRP+NsiC58LpGKfWH 7Ppy/JMY8ObK0AJfTRUDTz5eQxHS2VxPlG1697N0ee4qSbjeQ64bjc94Nhex1b+2N5Hn1MoJJwlp pf1Rr7/8DXitGHanPc2gAAAAASUVORK5CYII= X-Attribution: Ted Jabber-ID: hober0@gmail.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:AEq54ihL/lPbd/S1thUn0je3KI0= 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:64767 Archived-At: > When I do > > C-h k Meta backspace > > on w32 the help buffer tells me > > M-DEL (translated from ) runs the command > backward-kill-word > which is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `simple.el'. > It is bound to , 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 -- Edward O'Connor hober0@gmail.com Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem.