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24.3.50; new, undocumented menu structure using VECTORS?

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Message #46 received at 14797 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net
Cc: 14797 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, drew.adams <at> oracle.com, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: Re: bug#14797: 24.3.50;
 new, undocumented menu structure using VECTORS?
Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2016 20:40:34 +0300

> From: npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,  14797 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,  monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
> Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2016 12:35:10 -0400
> 
> Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> writes:
> > 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,

Indeed.  So each character is a key.

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