From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs keybinding syntaxes bewilderment Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 18:27:04 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-2022-JP Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1198032083 626 80.91.229.12 (19 Dec 2007 02:41:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 02:41:23 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 19 03:41:33 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1J4osH-00035w-4e for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Dec 2007 03:41:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J4orx-0000HE-Nm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Dec 2007 21:41:13 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!news.glorb.com!postnews.google.com!d27g2000prf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help, comp.emacs Original-Lines: 21 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.236.86.27 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1198031224 18250 127.0.0.1 (19 Dec 2007 02:27:04 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 02:27:04 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: d27g2000prf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=69.236.86.27; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/523.12.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0.4 Safari/523.12.2, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:154769 comp.emacs:96018 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:50195 Archived-At: When writing a keybinding code involving a function key, such as Ctrl+F1, i've always used (kbd "C-"), but i just realized that according to the printout from describe-key, it seems that it should be $B!H(B$B!I(B instead. i.e. when a named functional key is involved, it brings all the modifier key inside the angle braket. Is that suppose to be that way? seems less logical. Compare: a M-a C-M-a M- C-M- M- C-M- i don't see why all the modifier keys should be brought inside the angle bracket that designate function keys. Xah xah@xahlee.org $B-t(B http://xahlee.org/