From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What is the purpose of "To bind the key M-DEL, use "\M\d", not M-DEL"
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 12:58:09 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1H2Wqv-0003L3-C0@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <459C5681.60801@gmail.com> (lennart.borgman@gmail.com)
If you do
(global-set-key [M-DEL] nil)
you get the error in the subject line.
DEL is not a meaningful function key since function key symbols are
lower case. So this has to be an error.
At the Lisp level it is better to teach Lisp programmers the correct
rules than to try to DWIM.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-04 17:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-04 1:21 What is the purpose of "To bind the key M-DEL, use "\M\d", not M-DEL" Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-01-04 17:58 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2007-01-04 18:19 ` Drew Adams
2007-01-04 18:46 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-01-04 18:53 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-01-04 19:04 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-01-04 19:28 ` Edward O'Connor
2007-01-04 19:28 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-01-04 20:02 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-01-05 0:26 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-01-05 9:49 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-01-05 9:57 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-01-05 19:09 ` Richard Stallman
2007-01-05 0:31 ` Richard Stallman
2007-01-05 7:18 ` Stephen Leake
2007-01-05 9:11 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-01-06 2:54 ` Richard Stallman
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