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Re: Request: Specification For Denoting Keys
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: Request: Specification For Denoting Keys |
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Tue, 06 Oct 2020 10:50:04 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> It gives examples, but it's unclear that it covers all notations that
> have been used in the wild over the years --- as in "everything in the
> info node is handled by (kbd ...)" but not everything handled by (kbd
> ...) is in the info node. I'm not saying that the latter should
> happen, I'm looking at what a new parallel ( (call it keyname)
> function should be prepared to consume.
I'm not sure I understand what you're getting at, but `kbd` should
(hopefully) be the reverse of `key-description`. IIRC there are a few
discrepancies between the two functions, but they should be considered
as bugs rather than as features.
Stefan