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23.0.60; Index the statement that a shifted key gets the unshifted behavior

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Message #5 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: <emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org>
Subject: 23.0.60; Index the statement that a shifted key gets the unshifted behavior
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 08:04:23 -0800

In response to a question on help-gnu-emacs, I looked in the manuals
for the explanation that a shifted key sequence has, by default, the
behavior of the unshifted equivalent.
 
The statement is in node Key Sequence Input of the Elisp manual.
 
I looked in both the Emacs manual and the Elisp manual, and it took
some time to find this statement, even though I knew it was there
somewhere.
 
This should be indexed under "shift". And it should perhaps be added
somewhere in the Emacs manual - users will wonder, as this user did,
why `C-L' picks up the key binding of `C-l'.
 

In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
 of 2008-11-08 on LENNART-69DE564
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4) --no-opt --cflags -Ic:/g/include
-fno-crossjumping'
 

Message #10 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>, 1350 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org, bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#1350: 23.0.60;	Index the statement that a shifted key gets the unshifted behavior
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:48:44 +0200

> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
> Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 08:04:23 -0800
> Cc: 
> 
> In response to a question on help-gnu-emacs, I looked in the manuals
> for the explanation that a shifted key sequence has, by default, the
> behavior of the unshifted equivalent.
>  
> The statement is in node Key Sequence Input of the Elisp manual.
>  
> I looked in both the Emacs manual and the Elisp manual, and it took
> some time to find this statement, even though I knew it was there
> somewhere.
>  
> This should be indexed under "shift".

That paragraph is already indexed with "@cindex shift-translation".
Are you sure you have up-to-date Info files for the ELisp manual?

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