From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" 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, 4 Jan 2007 10:19:02 -0800 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1167934783 17976 80.91.229.12 (4 Jan 2007 18:19:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 18:19:43 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 04 19:19:37 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 1H2XBX-0007zn-Ey for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Jan 2007 19:19:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H2XBW-0007C6-SV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Jan 2007 13:19:26 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H2XBK-0007BX-Pn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Jan 2007 13:19:14 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H2XBI-0007AM-QY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Jan 2007 13:19:13 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H2XBI-0007A5-Kk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Jan 2007 13:19:12 -0500 Original-Received: from [141.146.126.228] (helo=agminet01.oracle.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1H2XBI-0001D9-7h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Jan 2007 13:19:12 -0500 Original-Received: from rgmgw2.us.oracle.com (rgmgw2.us.oracle.com [138.1.186.111]) by agminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id l04IJ9aM000358 for ; Thu, 4 Jan 2007 12:19:09 -0600 Original-Received: from rcsmt251.oracle.com (rcsmt251.oracle.com [148.87.90.196]) by rgmgw2.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id l04FsuJB007535 for ; Thu, 4 Jan 2007 11:19:09 -0700 Original-Received: from dhcp-4op11-4op12-west-130-35-178-179.us.oracle.com by rcsmt250.oracle.com with ESMTP id 2336060611167934748; Thu, 04 Jan 2007 11:19:08 -0700 Original-To: X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 Importance: Normal X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= 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:64761 Archived-At: > 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. Please say that in the error message. Without it, the message doesn't teach much.