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Re: [External] : New key binding syntax
From: |
Stefan Kangas |
Subject: |
Re: [External] : New key binding syntax |
Date: |
Wed, 10 Nov 2021 06:53:45 -0800 |
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> > 7. I'm in favor of letting `kbd' and Help descriptions
> > drop the use of angle brackets altogether.
>
> I agree that that would be good -- provided no ambiguity results.
> Does anyone see a concrete problem with this?
My problem is not technical but social: we are used to seeing M-<return>
so it might be jarring to suddenly see M-return. Isn't the latter also
harder to read?
PS. Of course, if we cared deeply about readability we would write instead:
Alt + Return
But even me, a radical, hesitate to propose such far-reaching changes.
But in the abstract I think it would be both desirable and TRT.
RE: [External] : New key binding syntax, Drew Adams, 2021/11/08
- Re: [External] : New key binding syntax, Richard Stallman, 2021/11/09
- Re: [External] : New key binding syntax,
Stefan Kangas <=
- RE: [External] : New key binding syntax, Drew Adams, 2021/11/10
- Re: [External] : New key binding syntax, Richard Stallman, 2021/11/12
- RE: [External] : New key binding syntax, Drew Adams, 2021/11/13
- Re: [External] : New key binding syntax, Richard Stallman, 2021/11/15
- Re: [External] : New key binding syntax, Alexandre Garreau, 2021/11/16
- Re: [External] : New key binding syntax, Richard Stallman, 2021/11/17
- Re: [External] : New key binding syntax, Yuri Khan, 2021/11/18
- Re: [External] : New key binding syntax, Alexandre Garreau, 2021/11/18
- Re: [External] : New key binding syntax, Yuri Khan, 2021/11/18
- Re: [External] : New key binding syntax, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/11/18