Subject: Re: bug#1111: describe-key's key notation display inconsistency

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2019 09:38:38 +0300

> From: Drew Adams <[email-masked]>
> Cc: xah lee <[email-masked]>, [email-masked],
>  Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
> 
> (elisp) `Function Keys':
> 
>   Function keys are represented in Emacs Lisp as
>   symbols; the symbol's name is the function key's
>   label, in lower case.
> 
>   For example, pressing a key labeled <F1> generates
>   an input event represented by the symbol 'f1'.
> 
> (Note: not the symbol `<f1>' - see my statement that
> I think the doc that says that the angle brackets
> are part of the event name is incorrect, per this
> doc passage.)

You are mixing keys with events produced by those keys and with the
description of those keys and events.  They are all different.