GNU bug report logs - #17362
24.4.50; inconsistent key notation: `ESC' vs `<ESC>'

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 14:31:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 24.4.50

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: 17362 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17362: 24.4.50; inconsistent key notation: `ESC' vs `<ESC>'
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 07:29:34 -0700 (PDT)

Emacs manual: contrast node `Menu Bar' with node `Quitting'.  The former
writes `ESC ESC ESC'; the latter writes `<ESC> <ESC> <ESC>'.

IMO, the former is preferable.  (Note that (kbd "ESC") and (kbd "<ESC>")
both act the same, however.)



In GNU Emacs 24.4.50.1 (i686-pc-mingw32)
 of 2014-04-21 on ODIEONE
Bzr revision: 117005 dancol <at> dancol.org-20140421180019-po4wdeg7gqvvlh5d
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601
Configured using:
 `configure --prefix=/c/Devel/emacs/snapshot/trunk
 --enable-checking=yes,glyphs 'CFLAGS=-O0 -g3'
 LDFLAGS=-Lc:/Devel/emacs/lib 'CPPFLAGS=-DGC_MCHECK=1
 -Ic:/Devel/emacs/include''
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