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bug#13219: 24.3.50; missing `...' in Emacs manual
From: |
Stephen Berman |
Subject: |
bug#13219: 24.3.50; missing `...' in Emacs manual |
Date: |
Fri, 21 Dec 2012 18:10:20 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
On Fri, 21 Dec 2012 11:22:48 +0200 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
>> Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 00:24:21 -0800
>> Cc: 13219@debbugs.gnu.org
>>
>> > It is the convention in the manual not to insert `..' around single
>> > function keys which are already printed like <this>. Not a
>> > bug (and no bike-shedding please).
>>
>> See attached screenshot. Are you perhaps trying to make a virtue (and a
>> convention) out of mistake? Do you honestly think it is more readable to
>> have
>> these exceptions?
>
> Are you referring to the highlight? If so, who or what did the
> highlighting of `..' strings in that screenshot? I don't see such
> highlighting in "emacs -Q".
>
> We had this argument before. <FOO> is a name of a single key. We
> don't quote single keys named by their labels, only key sequences.
Actually, the convention appears to be: enclose single keys labels that
are not single characters in angle brackets but quote single keys labels
that are single characters (as well as labels of key sequences);
cf. (emacs) Dired Navigation:
"For extra convenience, <SPC> and `n' in Dired are equivalent to `C-n'."
Steve Berman