Which keyboard hotkey syntax should we use?

Which keyboard hotkey syntax should we use?

[Andrew Pennebaker]

There's (kbd "...") and [...]. Could we deprecate one of these in favor of
the other for simplicity?

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Andrew Pennebaker
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Re: Which keyboard hotkey syntax should we use?

[Kevin Rodgers]

On 5/29/13 5:07 PM, Andrew Pennebaker wrote:
> There's (kbd "...") and [...]. Could we deprecate one of these in favor of
> the other for simplicity?

You should use the syntax that you understand.

I generally prefer [...] and only occasionally resort to (kbd "...").  I like
having them both available.

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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA

Re: Which keyboard hotkey syntax should we use?

[Stefan Monnier]

> There's (kbd "...") and [...]. Could we deprecate one of these in favor of
> the other for simplicity?

The [...] notation is the internal one, so it's probably not going away
any time soon.  We could try and deprecate the `kbd' syntax, but I think
most people would rather deprecate the [...] syntax instead ;-)


        Stefan

Re: Which keyboard hotkey syntax should we use?

[Emanuel Berg]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> There's (kbd "...") and [...]. Could we deprecate one of these in
>> favor of the other for simplicity?
>
> The [...] notation is the internal one, so it's probably not going
> away any time soon.  We could try and deprecate the `kbd' syntax,
> but I think most people would rather deprecate the [...] syntax
> instead ;-)

I heard that one is more "portable" than the other. If [...] is used
under the hood, I suppose that is the one, although I don't remember
the details of the argument.

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