From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: What're the proper names for the backspace and delete keys in files.texi? Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 21:47:40 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1135030977 11033 80.91.229.2 (19 Dec 2005 22:22:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 22:22:57 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 19 23:22:48 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EoTOb-0006iX-QJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Dec 2005 23:22:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EoTPT-0000dB-E0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Dec 2005 17:23:11 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EoTOV-0000Gv-Dt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Dec 2005 17:22:11 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EoTOS-0000FB-Dl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Dec 2005 17:22:09 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EoTOS-0000F4-2p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Dec 2005 17:22:08 -0500 Original-Received: from [193.149.49.134] (helo=acm.acm) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EoTRQ-0004aH-UY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Dec 2005 17:25:15 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (root@localhost) by acm.acm (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA00465 for ; Mon, 19 Dec 2005 21:47:41 GMT X-Sender: root@acm.acm Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org 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:48060 Archived-At: Hi, Emacs! In the Emacs manual, the key (the one that deletes backwards) seems sometimes to be called @key{BS}, and at other times @key{BACKSPACE} or @key{DEL}. The key (the one over the arrow keys and which deletes forward) sports the name @key{DELETE}. I think it's always written in capitals, but I'm not sure. The names recommended by the Texinfo manual (on page "key") are @key{BS} for backspace and (I think) @key{DEL} for _FORWARD_ delete. I'm not totally unconfused, and I'm surely not the only one. Would it perhaps be sensible to decide on standard names for these keys and promulgate them through the Emacs, Elisp (and CC Mode :-) manuals? My suggestion is that (i) the backspace key should always be called @key{BS}, despite the fact that the character it generates is ASCII DEL; (ii) the delete key gets called @key{Delete} or @key{delete}, despite the recommendations of the Texinfo manual. I think @key{DEL} should be avoided altogether, since its use as a key name contradicts is use as an ASCII character name. -- Alan Mackenzie (Munich, Germany)