From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>, Emacs Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Why are <next> and <prior> not called <page down> and <page up>?
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 13:00:05 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvlkp37chq.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44F7C067.2070607@student.lu.se> (Lennart Borgman's message of "Fri, 01 Sep 2006 07:08:55 +0200")
> What is needed is a translation from the internal symbol names to physical
> keyboard key names in `single-key-description'. Such a translation should of
> course be possible to turn off.
> Do you think this is a very big change? Does it disturb the transparency
> very much?
Well, the question is: how should people figure out the piece of elisp code
they should add in their .emacs in order to bind something to "page up".
A common way to do it is C-h c <page-up> and the response will currently say
"<prior>" but your suggestion would replace it with "<page-up>", so then
we'd need to make sure that this can be passed to define-key, probably via
`kbd', so we'd have to adjust kbd as well, at least. Also until now you
could do the translation by hand rather than use `kbd' and just pass [prior]
to define-key but [page-up] won't work, ...
It's not like it can't be done, but current expectations tend to make such
a thing into a special exception, which may generate at least as much
trouble as it's intended to solve. Then again, maybe not, I don't
actually know. I'm just pointing out that it's not nearly as simple as
it seems.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-01 17:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-31 15:57 Why are <next> and <prior> not called <page down> and <page up>? Lennart Borgman
2006-08-31 16:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-08-31 17:09 ` Jason Rumney
2006-08-31 18:55 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-08-31 20:34 ` Drew Adams
2006-08-31 20:45 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-08-31 21:10 ` Drew Adams
2006-08-31 21:31 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-08-31 22:00 ` Drew Adams
2006-08-31 22:19 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-09-01 2:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-09-01 5:08 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-09-01 6:29 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-09-01 17:00 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2006-09-01 0:47 ` David Abrahams
2006-09-01 9:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-09-01 21:57 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-09-01 22:31 ` Drew Adams
2006-09-02 7:05 ` David Kastrup
2006-09-02 7:53 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-09-02 13:46 ` Drew Adams
2006-09-03 14:53 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-09-03 15:49 ` Drew Adams
2006-09-02 21:49 ` Jason Rumney
2006-09-03 14:52 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-09-05 20:06 ` Kevin Rodgers
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