From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Suggestion: minor change to TUTORIAL(.*) Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 23:55:02 +0200 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1160517374 30292 80.91.229.2 (10 Oct 2006 21:56:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 21:56:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 10 23:56:12 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GXPZJ-00025A-9w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 23:55:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GXPZI-0008O7-Sj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 17:55:20 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GXPZ7-0008Le-2h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 17:55:09 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GXPZ4-0008Kk-Ga for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 17:55:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GXPZ4-0008JZ-8D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 17:55:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.66] (helo=romy.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GXPgv-0004WI-4j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:03:13 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-84-228-242-30.inter.net.il [84.228.242.30]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id FZA89993 (AUTH halo1); Tue, 10 Oct 2006 23:55:01 +0200 (IST) Original-To: "Drew Adams" In-reply-to: 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:60592 Archived-At: > From: "Drew Adams" > Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 22:06:55 -0700 > > Your physical key "Page Down" is > referred to by Emacs (in both the manual and the UI messages and *Help*) by > the logical-key name `', which has no spaces. info.texi uses "PageDown". > > Is the following hard to understand? > > > > `M-x t e x t SPC m o d e RET' > > It's very hard to read, especially with longer commands. > > There are relatively few instructions to type keys in the manuals, and the > above, fictitious example (not from a manual) is much longer than any I have > seen in the manual - about twice as long. So the length problem you cite > does not seem to be a problem in practice. Every time you see @kbd{whatever} in the manual means "type whatever". Here's a random example: There is a spiffy customize interface, which may be reached by typing @kbd{M-x customize-option erc-modules @key{RET}}. Imagine having everything inside @kbd written with spaces between the letters!