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24.3.50; new, undocumented menu structure using VECTORS?

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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 14797 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: bug#14797: 24.3.50; new, undocumented menu structure using VECTORS?
Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2016 09:52:07 -0700 (PDT)

> > It's not very clear to me from this doc what the relation
> > is between a key binding and a "binding for the character".
> > Keys and characters are different animals.  Clearly there
> > is a relation between them here, but it doesn't seem to
> > be made explicit.
> 
> I think it's clear from the text in `(elisp) Key Sequences':
> 
>     A "key sequence", or "key" for short, is a sequence of one or more
>     input events that form a unit.  Input events include characters,

Maybe.  (But "character" is also something other than an input
event, even for Emacs.)

But it is still "not very clear to me from _this_ doc".

A few words clarifying that might help.  Or a cross-ref to
the doc that covers it.

> > But again, unless you want to try to clarify that, the
> > proposed doc is OK, and adding it improves things.

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