From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: drew.adams@oracle.com: bug in read-kbd-macro Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 11:41:46 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1159285616 15398 80.91.229.2 (26 Sep 2006 15:46:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 15:46:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 26 17:46:55 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GSF6U-0001Nn-H1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 17:44:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GSF6U-00041Y-14 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 11:44:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GSF48-0000Nb-Cx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 11:41:48 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GSF47-0000Mc-Sh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 11:41:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GSF47-0000MI-Ep for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 11:41:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GSF8m-0004UG-Iq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 11:46:36 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1GSF46-0001Sx-MO; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 11:41:46 -0400 Original-To: "Drew Adams" In-reply-to: X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:60240 Archived-At: 2. The bug reported is not about the behavior when angle brackets are included. There is no bug in that case, as I stated, so there is no sense citing that case as evidence that there is no bug. The bug is about the behavior when angle brackets are not used in the key description. Key descriptions need not have angle brackets Key descriptions that are meant to be read back in reliably do need to have angle brackets. Angle-bracket notation is, at least in some contexts, highly UNreadable. I think that is a bit of an exaggeration, but even if we grant it, the fact is that angle-bracket notation is what we use for output to be "readable" by read-kbd-macro. I will not consider a change in this now, and probably not ever; please let's drop the issue.