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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 20:50:11 +0300 |
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: 37485@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2019 19:33:57 +0200
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > Anyway, what's the real problem here? Just the fact that you
> > personally are annoyed?
>
> The problem is that these key bindings, as formatted by describe-keys,
> aren't what was intended. We don't choose key bindings on a whime. `C-c
> C-m' for instance (in Message mode), has the "m" as a mnemonic for
> "MIME". `C-c RET' doesn't mean anything.
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?
- bug#37485: 27.0.50; C-m in describe-bindings, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2019/09/22
- 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 <=
- 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, Drew Adams, 2019/09/23