From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: Edward O'Connor <hober0@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What is the purpose of "To bind the key M-DEL, use "\M\d", not M-DEL"
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2007 10:49:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <je8xgh3is6.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <459D9B1D.9020604@gmail.com> (Lennart Borgman's message of "Fri, 05 Jan 2007 01:26:05 +0100")
"Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:
> I had to consult Webster to see what canonical really means ....
See <http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/C/canonical.html>.
> Now let me see if I understand this... - here is then another question
> around this:
>
> As I understand it now the preferable way to define a key is (of course)
> always to use a canonical representation. Maybe it even can not be done in
> any other way?
The canonical representation is the one that works on most if not all
systems (with tty input normally being the most restrictive). All other
representations of the key are supposed to be translated through
function-key-map.
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-05 9:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-04 1:21 What is the purpose of "To bind the key M-DEL, use "\M\d", not M-DEL" Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-01-04 17:58 ` Richard Stallman
2007-01-04 18:19 ` Drew Adams
2007-01-04 18:46 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-01-04 18:53 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-01-04 19:04 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-01-04 19:28 ` Edward O'Connor
2007-01-04 19:28 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-01-04 20:02 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-01-05 0:26 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-01-05 9:49 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2007-01-05 9:57 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-01-05 19:09 ` Richard Stallman
2007-01-05 0:31 ` Richard Stallman
2007-01-05 7:18 ` Stephen Leake
2007-01-05 9:11 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-01-06 2:54 ` Richard Stallman
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