@kbd{@key{TAB}}
Indeed. A feature specifically requested, of course. Implemented by rms
in 1989. (Or maybe I sent the patch and rms installed it, no idea any more.)
Ah, for the days of apple-gunkies ...
Mon Aug 28 00:21:33 1989 Richard Stallman (rms at apple-gunkies.ai.mit.edu)
[...]
* texinfo.tex (\kbd): If arg consists of one \key command, be a no op.
I didn't find any discussion of
@key inside @kbd in particular.
There is a thread in bug-texinfo in March 2018, and some mention in
earlier years. (Just grepping for kbd.*key and key.*kbd in the
*texinfo/* mailing list archives; didn't try to read all the msgs.)
Probably yet more from before the archives begin.
Anyway, we could spend more time looking up past history, but it sounds
like all the decisions have been made, so why bother ... certainly not
anything I want to spend more time exhuming. --happy hacking, karl.
