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bug#37485: 27.0.50; C-m in describe-bindings
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#37485: 27.0.50; C-m in describe-bindings |
Date: |
Mon, 23 Sep 2019 21:44:38 +0300 |
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: 37485@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2019 19:58:15 +0200
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > Key description and fast typing are two separate issues. Mnemonics is
> > yet another, third, issue (and assigning mnemonic value to 'm' in C-m
> > is generally unusual, IME). I don't think these additional issues
> > should affect how we display C-m/RET _everywhere_ in our docs. E.g.,
> > would you propose to use C-i instead of TAB?
>
> Hm... I think so? (There's 67 `C-. C-i' in the manual.)
And 187 TABs.
> Mind you, I'm only talking about multi-key keystrokes if we were to do
> this by default.
I don't see the difference, and neither does describe-key, AFAIK.
> But what I really had in mind was to find out whether anybody had any
> smart ideas for how to convey to `describe-bindings' how these keys
> should be displayed on a per-keymap basis. I hadn't taken a look at how
> keymaps are defined at all...
>
> But they are really char-table objects wrapped in a list?
>
> Would it be possible to add an option to `make-keymap' that would pass
> along an argument to control what `describe-bindings' should do with the
> keymap? And then stash that in the char-table object?
I think it's a waste of cycles. We have much more important stuff to
spend time on. But that's me.
- bug#37485: 27.0.50; C-m in describe-bindings, (continued)
- bug#37485: 27.0.50; C-m in describe-bindings, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/09/22
- bug#37485: 27.0.50; C-m in describe-bindings, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2019/09/23
- bug#37485: 27.0.50; C-m in describe-bindings, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/09/23
- bug#37485: 27.0.50; C-m in describe-bindings, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2019/09/23
- bug#37485: 27.0.50; C-m in describe-bindings, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/09/23
- bug#37485: 27.0.50; C-m in describe-bindings, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2019/09/23
- bug#37485: 27.0.50; C-m in describe-bindings, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/09/23
- bug#37485: 27.0.50; C-m in describe-bindings, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2019/09/23
- bug#37485: 27.0.50; C-m in describe-bindings,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#37485: 27.0.50; C-m in describe-bindings, Drew Adams, 2019/09/23