"Drew Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Consider these two definitions: > > (defcustom my-key [?\C-\ ] "My key sequence.") > (defcustom my-key "\C- " "My key sequence.") > > `C-h v' then gives these values: [67108896] and "^@". > > Is this as good as can be expected - is there no way to get something more > readable for [?\C-\ ]?
(key-description [67108896]) => "C-SPC" (key-description "\C- ") => "C-@" > Emacs users learn quickly to read "^@" as "control @", and they also > learn that this is equivalent to "control SPC", but [67108896] is hard > to read and digest. Keys are just integers in Emacs. There is nothing that makes any integer special wrt to keys. > Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is that the form [?\C- ] > is generally preferred over the form "\C- ", for a key binding. These two key sequences represent quite different bindings. You can't get one override the other, it depends on the terminal which key you receive on typing C-space. > If so, that makes matters worse in cases like this. > > This form is good: > > (defcustom my-key [(control ?\ )] "My key sequence.") (key-description [(control ?\ )]) => "C-SPC" Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
