From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: use correct vector/list syntax for keybindings?
Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2019 14:25:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8736f2h2v5.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m28soufqrx.fsf@gmail.com> (Robert Pluim's message of "Tue, 05 Nov 2019 13:31:46 +0100")
On Nov 05 2019, Robert Pluim wrote:
> In "(emacs) Init Rebinding", it says
>
> If a vector element is a character, write it
> as a Lisp character constant: ‘?’ followed by the character as it would
> appear in a string.
>
> There are a fair few bindings in the emacs source that forget the '?'
> and do eg
>
> [(control c)]
>
> Is it worth going through and changing those?
This is not the syntax the text above is talking about. It is a vector
of Lucid-style event type lists, where the characters can be written as
symbols (see event-convert-list). It is supported for XEmacs
compatibility.
Andreas.
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-05 12:31 use correct vector/list syntax for keybindings? Robert Pluim
2019-11-05 13:25 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2019-11-05 13:35 ` Robert Pluim
2019-11-05 14:19 ` Andreas Schwab
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