Subject: bug#55708: (key-description (kbd "C-F")) becomes "C-f"

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 29 May 2022 18:41:04 +0200

On Mai 29 2022, meedstrom--- via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" wrote:

> In Emacs 29, running emacs -Q, we get inconsistent results:
>
> (key-description (kbd "M-F")) returns "M-F"
> (key-description (kbd "H-F")) returns "H-F"
> (key-description (kbd "A-F")) returns "A-F"
>
> but
>
> (key-description (kbd "C-F")) returns "C-f"

This is consistent with the lisp reader, which also returns ?\C-f for
?\C-F.  Note that this happens for all keys that contain control
modified letters, independent of the other modifiers.

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