Re: use correct vector/list syntax for keybindings?

[Andreas Schwab]

On Nov 05 2019, Robert Pluim wrote:

> In  "(emacs) Init Rebinding", it says
>
>     If a vector element is a character, write it
>     as a Lisp character constant: ‘?’ followed by the character as it would
>     appear in a string.
>
> There are a fair few bindings in the emacs source that forget the '?'
> and do eg
>
>     [(control c)]
>
> Is it worth going through and changing those?

This is not the syntax the text above is talking about.  It is a vector
of Lucid-style event type lists, where the characters can be written as
symbols (see event-convert-list).  It is supported for XEmacs
compatibility.

Andreas.

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