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Re: unhelpful menu keybinding notes
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: unhelpful menu keybinding notes |
Date: |
Mon, 17 Apr 2006 12:29:57 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> Alternatively, one could put explicit keyboard help strings into the
> menus (or have some property for that purpose on the function?). One
> might assume that the people with actual "<cut>", "<paste>", "<copy>"
> keys would still try using them without being prompted for them.
> Yes, this is a general problem with `substitute-command-keys', which we have
> discussed before. Whenever there is more than one key sequence bound to a
> command, the problem surfaces.
> No matter what algorithm is used to choose (ASCII, non-ASCII, shortest,
> longest, chords, non-chords, whatever), people will want to be able to
> specify the binding to use in the result, and there is no way to do that
> now. I hope we will address this after the release and find a good solution.
> In my own libraries I sometimes hard-code explicit bindings and sometimes
> rely upon \\[...]. The advantage of the former is that you can control what
> gets communicated; the disadvantage is that that can be incorrect if the
> user has changed the bindings.
In some pars of Emacs we use another trick: make and use an alias, like
`advertised-undo'. I think this is a bad solution because C-h f undo RET
then lists all bindings except for the "advertised" one C-x u.
Maybe a better solution is to add a `advertised-binding' property to the
function's symbol:
(put 'undo 'advertised-binding [?\C-x ?u])
which could be used similarly to the :key-sequence property in menus
(i.e. it's used if the key seuqnece is indeed bound to the specified
command).
Stefan
- unhelpful menu keybinding notes, Miles Bader, 2006/04/16
- Re: unhelpful menu keybinding notes, Lennart Borgman, 2006/04/17
- Re: unhelpful menu keybinding notes, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/04/17
- Re: unhelpful menu keybinding notes, Lennart Borgman, 2006/04/17
- Re: unhelpful menu keybinding notes, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/04/17
- Re: unhelpful menu keybinding notes, David Kastrup, 2006/04/17
- RE: unhelpful menu keybinding notes, Drew Adams, 2006/04/17
- Re: unhelpful menu keybinding notes,
Stefan Monnier <=
- RE: unhelpful menu keybinding notes, Drew Adams, 2006/04/17
- Re: unhelpful menu keybinding notes, Richard Stallman, 2006/04/17
- Re: unhelpful menu keybinding notes, Richard Stallman, 2006/04/17
- Re: unhelpful menu keybinding notes, Lennart Borgman, 2006/04/17