From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Which keyboard hotkey syntax should we use? Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 17:31:34 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87ehco8ox5.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1369928256 13229 80.91.229.3 (30 May 2013 15:37:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 15:37:36 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 30 17:37:38 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ui4v4-00080C-A2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 May 2013 17:37:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35268 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ui4v3-0004eW-Qb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 May 2013 11:37:37 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.datemas.de!rt.uk.eu.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 18 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: SWN/nubmpQxYKwY7hPy4YA.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:xjLZE/OnX8U5wb5N+UWAnKQVcSQ= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:198905 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 30 May 2013 11:37:20 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:91171 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >> There's (kbd "...") and [...]. Could we deprecate one of these in >> favor of the other for simplicity? > > The [...] notation is the internal one, so it's probably not going > away any time soon. We could try and deprecate the `kbd' syntax, > but I think most people would rather deprecate the [...] syntax > instead ;-) I heard that one is more "portable" than the other. If [...] is used under the hood, I suppose that is the one, although I don't remember the details of the argument. -- Emanuel Berg - programmer (hire me! CV below) computer projects: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 internet activity: http://home.student.uu.se/embe8573