From: "Richard M. Stallman" <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What're the proper names for the backspace and delete keys in files.texi?
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 14:59:40 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1EywzU-0005M0-QZ@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1060117102928.385A-100000@acm.acm> (message from Alan Mackenzie on Tue, 17 Jan 2006 11:00:21 +0000 (GMT))
@key{DEL} is a _logical_ key, that key which happens to generate ASCII
DEL (0x7f) when you press it. So the sentence "Emacs binds @key{DEL} to
the command @code{delete-backward-char} by default." would be entirely
appropriate.
That's true, more or less--except that under X all keys are "logical"
in this sense.
Thus, `DEL' stands for ASCII code DEL.
'DELETE' stands for the symbol DELETE.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-17 19:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-19 21:47 What're the proper names for the backspace and delete keys in files.texi? Alan Mackenzie
2005-12-20 5:33 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-20 7:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-01-12 13:16 ` Alan Mackenzie
2006-01-12 20:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-01-12 21:27 ` Alan Mackenzie
2006-01-13 8:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-01-13 9:09 ` Neil Jerram
2006-01-13 16:55 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-01-13 17:26 ` Neil Jerram
2006-01-13 20:03 ` Aidan Kehoe
2006-01-13 19:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-01-13 21:31 ` Drew Adams
2006-01-19 17:45 ` Richard M. Stallman
2006-01-16 12:39 ` Alan Mackenzie
2006-01-16 18:48 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2006-01-17 3:25 ` Richard M. Stallman
2006-01-17 11:00 ` Alan Mackenzie
2006-01-17 19:59 ` Richard M. Stallman [this message]
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