GNU bug report logs - #14554
24.3.50; incorrect key representation in Emacs manual: `C-Mouse-N'

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Message #11 received at 14554 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 14554 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, drew.adams <at> oracle.com
Subject: Re: bug#14554: 24.3.50;
 incorrect key representation in Emacs manual: `C-Mouse-N'
Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2014 16:20:18 +0200

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2014 02:55:57 -0800
> Cc: 14554 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> writes:
> 
> > (emacs) `Menu Mouse Clicks' uses the incorrect notation `C-Mouse-1'
> > etc. instead of what Emacs itself uses (in its user interface and docs):
> > `C-mouse-1' etc.
> >
> > This has the effect that if you search case-sensitively for `C-mouse-3'
> > in the manual you will not find any occurrences.
> 
> That would also require changing stuff like
> 
> @item Mouse-1
> @kindex Mouse-1 @r{(mode line)}
> 
> Do we want all these mice in the manual to have a lower case "m"?
> 
> Also "Drag-Mouse-1" etc.

Keys are always in lower case, aren't they?  "Drag-" is a modifier, so
it's OK to have it capitalized, but "mouse-1" etc. should be in lower
case, IMO.

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