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: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 21:02:49 +0100 Message-ID: References: <459C5681.60801@gmail.com> <459D4B86.6040408@gmail.com> <86ejqa8ubs.fsf@rakim.cfhp.org> <459D554E.1020603@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 1167940992 9794 80.91.229.12 (4 Jan 2007 20:03:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 20:03:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Edward O'Connor , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 04 21:03:09 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 1H2Ynr-0005it-Kv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Jan 2007 21:03:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H2Ynr-0001Vf-77 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Jan 2007 15:03:07 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H2Ynd-0001Td-TF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Jan 2007 15:02:53 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H2Ynb-0001QW-LM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Jan 2007 15:02:52 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H2Ynb-0001QO-Ih for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Jan 2007 15:02:51 -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 1H2Yna-0002uA-SC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Jan 2007 15:02:51 -0500 Original-Received: from Relay2.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 A33CD1226B; Thu, 4 Jan 2007 21:02:49 +0100 (CET) Original-To: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" X-Yow: I used to be a FUNDAMENTALIST, but then I heard about the HIGH RADIATION LEVELS and bought an ENCYCLOPEDIA!! In-Reply-To: <459D554E.1020603@gmail.com> (Lennart Borgman's message of "Thu, 04 Jan 2007 20:28:14 +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:64771 Archived-At: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" writes: > Which actually works, yes. But isn't there a point in telling about > M-backspace instead since M-DEL is made in the platform specific > translation in function-key-map? No, M-DEL is the canonical key. Anthing defined via function-key-map is non-canonical. 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."