From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab 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 10:49:29 +0100 Message-ID: References: <459C5681.60801@gmail.com> <459D4B86.6040408@gmail.com> <86ejqa8ubs.fsf@rakim.cfhp.org> <459D554E.1020603@gmail.com> <459D9B1D.9020604@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1167990596 13796 80.91.229.12 (5 Jan 2007 09:49:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 09:49:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Edward O'Connor , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 05 10:49:48 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 1H2lhr-000694-Qi for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Jan 2007 10:49:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H2lhr-0007m2-8L for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Jan 2007 04:49:47 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H2lhd-0007lh-VI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Jan 2007 04:49:34 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H2lhc-0007lL-5O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Jan 2007 04:49:33 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H2lhc-0007lG-1U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Jan 2007 04:49:32 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.135.220.2] (helo=mx1.suse.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1H2lhb-0002X8-Eu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Jan 2007 04:49:31 -0500 Original-Received: from Relay1.suse.de (mail2.suse.de [195.135.221.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25AEC12294; Fri, 5 Jan 2007 10:49:30 +0100 (CET) Original-To: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" X-Yow: Once, there was NO fun... This was before MENU planning, FASHION statements or NAUTILUS equipment... Then, in 1985.. FUN was completely encoded in this tiny MICROCHIP.. It contain 14,768 vaguely amusing SIT-COM pilots!! We had to wait FOUR BILLION years but we finally got JERRY LEWIS, MTV and a large selection of cream-filled snack cakes! In-Reply-To: <459D9B1D.9020604@gmail.com> (Lennart Borgman's message of "Fri, 05 Jan 2007 01:26:05 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.91 (gnu/linux) 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:64817 Archived-At: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" writes: > I had to consult Webster to see what canonical really means .... See . > 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. --=20 Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstra=DFe 5, 90409 N=FCrnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint =3D 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED= 5 "And now for something completely different."