From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Is `kbd' idempotent?
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2015 15:25:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mvtu6ybe.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: n3ht74$lu$1@ger.gmane.org
Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> writes:
> What exactly do you define as "any format that Emacs
> understands" - do you want to allow backslash-escapes (even
> though no characters requiring such are used in keyboard macro
> format)? Control characters typed directly with C-q? A vector
> literal such as "[?\\M-x]" representing [134217848]? The string
> "(kbd \"foo\")"? Emacs understands all of these.
> Basically, what other formats, specifically, do you want to
> accept? What formats do you think your documentation will cause
> your users to be inclined to type?
The input from the user is `read' and evaluated. Any expression that
evaluates to something that would be accepted by `define-key' should be
accepted as input.
I'm deliberating if I'm doing the user a favor if I pass any `stringp'
input implicitly to `kbd', because the keyboard macro format seems to be
quite popular. That would spare him to wrap his input into `kbd' by
himself. But if the result of `kbd' can change the "semantics" of a
string describing a key sequence - as your counterexamples demonstrate -
I can't do that.
Thanks for all answers,
Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-01 14:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-30 15:26 Is `kbd' idempotent? Michael Heerdegen
2015-11-30 15:39 ` David Kastrup
2015-11-30 16:01 ` Michael Heerdegen
2015-11-30 16:24 ` Random832
2015-12-01 14:25 ` Michael Heerdegen [this message]
2015-12-01 15:37 ` Random832
2015-12-01 18:32 ` Michael Heerdegen
2015-12-02 18:33 ` Michael Heerdegen
2015-11-30 16:24 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-11-30 16:30 ` Random832
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