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Re: Doc of keyboard macros


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Doc of keyboard macros
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2018 15:00:08 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Fixed and pushed,
Thank you,


        Stefan


Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
>> Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2018 12:36:35 -0400
>> 
>> >>   . You are breaking the manual's style when describing commands: we
>> >>     always start with a list of the commands with short descriptions,
>> >>     and follow that by the detailed descriptions.
>> 
>> Not sure exactly in which way I broke with that convention.
>> Does it mean that I should move the "details" (like the C-u/C-uC-u and
>> the F4-vs-C-xe discussion) to after the table?
>
> Yes, I think so.
>
>> Now that I think a bit more about it, I actually wonder why we bother
>> discussing this C-u business so early in the "Basic Keyboard Macro".
>
> Because they have very different effect, not just some minor variation
> of the original command.
>
>>  @table @kbd
>> address@hidden C-x (
>>  @item @key{F3}
>
> The second one should be @itemx, not @item.  And I think we should
> have F3 first, because "C-x (" is deprecated, and we are now
> reinstating it for the benefit of some systems that are either rare or
> ones that we aren't supposed to care about too much.
>
>> address@hidden C-x e
>>  @item @key{F4}
>
> Same here.
>
>> address@hidden C-u C-x (
>>  @item C-u @key{F3}
>
> Same here.
>
>> address@hidden C-u C-u C-x (
>>  @item C-u C-u @key{F3}
>
> Same here.
>
> Thanks.



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