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: Fri, 05 Jan 2007 14:09:00 -0500 Message-ID: References: <459C5681.60801@gmail.com> <459D4B86.6040408@gmail.com> <86ejqa8ubs.fsf@rakim.cfhp.org> <459D554E.1020603@gmail.com> <459D9B1D.9020604@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 1168024195 7826 80.91.229.12 (5 Jan 2007 19:09:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 19:09:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: schwab@suse.de, hober0@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 05 20:09:53 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 1H2uRo-0005W3-LT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Jan 2007 20:09:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H2uRo-0001VV-2d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Jan 2007 14:09:48 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H2uRS-0001I5-8R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Jan 2007 14:09:26 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H2uRR-0001Gz-MS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Jan 2007 14:09:25 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H2uRR-0001GT-5s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Jan 2007 14:09:25 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1H2uRQ-0003gs-Rr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Jan 2007 14:09:24 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1H2uR2-0000IF-SD; Fri, 05 Jan 2007 14:09:00 -0500 Original-To: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" In-reply-to: <459D9B1D.9020604@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:64832 Archived-At: M-backspace is the raw key that Emacs gets from a window system. It stands for the `backspace' key with Meta held down. M-DEL is the canonical key for DEL with Meta held down. Therefore, M-backspace translates into M-DEL. But there are other ways for M-DEL to be generated. Any Lisp program that wants to be general should not do anything with M-backspace. Maybe pc-mode.el does not want to be general. But let's not worry about it. For present purposes, M-backspace is part of a low-level mechanism that you should not look inside. Just forget it exists.