From: Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
Cc: 1111@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#1111: describe-key's key notation display inconsistency
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2021 22:07:38 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGOnjhTO9Qzv0kRYCxXPOmqithYGv0U30cH0LehP9wFdtgFKpQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkmkdOKk7YegsJCGMC+0m44iNZfj0RheKCEhAmonQNwuNng@mail.gmail.com>
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thank you.
On Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 3:00 PM Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> wrote:
> tags 1111 fixed
> close 1111 28.1
> thanks
>
> xah lee <xah@xahlee.org> writes:
>
> > When doing a describe-key on C-<backspace>, emacs prints <C-backspace>
> > instead. Similar for any other special key whose macro notation are
> bracketed by
> > angle brackets. e.g. <down>, <F6>, <return>, <kp-1>, etc. Where, emacs
> puts the
> > entire thing inside angle brackets instead of the more traditional of
> modifier
> > followed by dash followed by key name.
> >
> > Although these are identical as far as kbd function is concerned, but
> wouldn't
> > it be more intuitively consistent by using C-<key> instead of <C-key>?
>
> This is now the case in Emacs 28, from NEWS:
>
> ** Modifiers now go outside angle brackets in pretty-printed key
> bindings.
> For example, 'RET' with Control and Meta modifiers is now shown as
> 'C-M-<return>' instead of '<C-M-return>'. Either variant can be used
> as input; functions such as 'kbd' and 'read-kbd-macro' accept both
> styles as equivalent (they have done so for a long time).
>
> I'm therefore closing this bug report.
>
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-26 5:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-07 15:12 bug#1111: describe-key's key notation display inconsistency xah lee
2019-08-08 12:35 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-08-08 15:47 ` Drew Adams
2019-08-08 16:03 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-08-08 17:25 ` Drew Adams
2019-08-08 18:06 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-08-08 22:15 ` Drew Adams
2019-08-08 23:05 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-08-09 0:14 ` Drew Adams
2019-08-09 6:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-24 22:00 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-24 22:49 ` bug#1111: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-09-26 5:07 ` Xah Lee [this message]
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