From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Which keyboard hotkey syntax should we use? Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 23:14:04 -0600 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1369890838 1824 80.91.229.3 (30 May 2013 05:13:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 05:13:58 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 30 07:13:57 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UhvBS-0005WW-Je for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 May 2013 07:13:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41173 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UhvBS-0000J3-5f for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 May 2013 01:13:54 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:55347) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UhvBC-0000II-AP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 May 2013 01:13:44 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UhvAz-0001ia-RD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 May 2013 01:13:38 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:41581) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UhvAz-0001iF-KU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 May 2013 01:13:25 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UhvAs-00053w-WD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 May 2013 07:13:19 +0200 Original-Received: from 71-215-95-78.hlrn.qwest.net ([71.215.95.78]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 30 May 2013 07:13:18 +0200 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by 71-215-95-78.hlrn.qwest.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 30 May 2013 07:13:18 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 12 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 71-215-95-78.hlrn.qwest.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.2.28) Gecko/20120306 Thunderbird/3.1.20 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:91156 Archived-At: 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. -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA