Re: MELPA upgrade error

[Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>]

VanL wrote:

>>> The trick to obtain the number for the f1
>>> fn-key is
>>
>> There is no "number" for the `f1` key.
>
> 'h used to be 8 counting from 1 for 'a back
> in the day before numbers were assigned
> mnemoniclature. [1] Which may explain why C-h
> is 8 there.

Again, ascii(1) is your friend: 

$ ascii {1..8} | grep '\^'
ASCII 0/1 is decimal 001, hex 01, octal 001, bits 00000001: called ^A, SOH
ASCII 0/2 is decimal 002, hex 02, octal 002, bits 00000010: called ^B, STX
ASCII 0/3 is decimal 003, hex 03, octal 003, bits 00000011: called ^C, ETX
ASCII 0/4 is decimal 004, hex 04, octal 004, bits 00000100: called ^D, EOT
ASCII 0/5 is decimal 005, hex 05, octal 005, bits 00000101: called ^E, ENQ
ASCII 0/6 is decimal 006, hex 06, octal 006, bits 00000110: called ^F, ACK
ASCII 0/7 is decimal 007, hex 07, octal 007, bits 00000111: called ^G, BEL
ASCII 0/8 is decimal 008, hex 08, octal 010, bits 00001000: called ^H, BS

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