bug#45536: [PATCH] Pretty-print keys without <> around modifiers

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase@acm.org>
> Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2021 14:29:53 +0100
> Cc: larsi@gnus.org, 45536@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> It was suggested earlier in the discussion that people might be confused 
> about the meaning of M-<return> and that it therefore would be better to keep 
> the old style <M-return> despite its shortcomings. The Info manual's apparent 
> and pervasive use of the logical style indicates that such concerns are 
> unlikely to be well-founded.
> 
> It is not an argument about how the manual (in any format) should present key 
> bindings. Nor is the Info manual's style the reason for the change; it merely 
> supports the claim that the logical style is well-understood and not 
> controversial in the least.

I therefore suggest not to mention the Info manual's representation of
key sequences in this discussion at all.  The Info rendering of key
sequences is almost entirely unrelated to what Emacs does, and can
only confuse and muddy the waters (as it did here).