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: What is the purpose of "To bind the key M-DEL, use "\M\d", not M-DEL" Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 19:31:06 -0500 Message-ID: References: <459C5681.60801@gmail.com> <459D4B86.6040408@gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1167957191 24443 80.91.229.12 (5 Jan 2007 00:33:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 00:33:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 05 01:33:10 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1H2d17-00081V-G0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Jan 2007 01:33:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H2d16-0003vJ-LT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Jan 2007 19:33:04 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H2cze-0002rl-DN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Jan 2007 19:31:34 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H2czb-0002oO-1s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Jan 2007 19:31:31 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H2czZ-0002nc-KR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Jan 2007 19:31:29 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1H2czZ-0000ld-1r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Jan 2007 19:31:29 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1H2czC-0004A8-DT; Thu, 04 Jan 2007 19:31:06 -0500 Original-To: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" In-reply-to: <459D4B86.6040408@gmail.com> (lennart.borgman@gmail.com) 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:64800 Archived-At: M-DEL (translated from ) runs the command backward-kill-word which is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `simple.el'. It is bound to , M-DEL. Would it not be better if the error message we are talking about told me to bind [M-backspace] instead? Binding M-backspace is NOT the right way to handle this. You should bind the character M-DEL. However that's a character, not a function key, so you don't write it as [M-DEL] in Lisp. This is not a simple subject, and I don't think an error message can explain it all. What maybe it could do is refer to a node in the Lisp manual.