GNU bug report logs - #9700
24.0.50; doc string of `key-description'

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Package: emacs;

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

Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2011 06:47:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 24.0.50

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 9700 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 9700 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#9700: 24.0.50; doc string of `key-description'
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 01:09:12 +0800

"Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> writes:

>  "Control characters turn into "C-foo" sequences, meta into "M-foo",
>   spaces are put between sequence elements, etc."
>  
> Since Emacs 21 that needs to be changed to "<C-foo>" and "<M-foo>",
> since "foo" is obviously the name of a function key (more than one
> character in the name).

No, these are not referring to function keys.  I tweaked the docstring
to make this clearer.
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