Re: confusion with defining keys

[Emanuel Berg]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> What you write between [...] does not use the same
> syntax as what's written in "..." (and neither is the
> same as what's written in (kbd "...")).

All of those seem to work:

(global-set-key (kbd "M-RET") 'find-file-at-line) ; 1
(global-set-key "\M-\r"       'find-file-at-line) ; 2
(global-set-key [?\M-\r]      'find-file-at-line) ; 3

But another thing, when you do

(global-set-key [M-RET] 'find-file-at-line)

it says

(error "To bind the key M-RET, use \"\\M-\\r\", not [M-RET]")

- that should indicate "\M-\r", right? (example 2)

So why does the [...] syntax recommend the "..."
syntax, if the "..." is the one outdated/incomplete and
[...] the one modern/universal?

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