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Re: Current mode command discovery


From: Richard Stallman
Subject: Re: Current mode command discovery
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2021 01:18:11 -0500

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  > You distinguish between "commands" and "keys"?  Emacs doesn't.  C-f is
  > a _command_, not (just) a key.

Using our terminology carefully, C-f is not a command.  C-f is a key,
and it is bound to the command forward-char.

I'm often sloppy about this, and I suppose everyone is.  But when
these distinctions matter, let's follow the definitions.


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Dr Richard Stallman
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Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
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