On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 19:30 -0600, Tommy Reynolds wrote: > Uttered "Paul W. Frields" <stickster@xxxxxxxxx>, spake thus: > > > I'm not sure if I got Tommy's meaning right, but I think what he was > > getting at didn't have to do with the difference between printable and > > nonprintable characters, but rather the difference between something the > > user types and sees echoed on the screen (like ":wq" in the vi example), > > as opposed to Ctrl+Alt+Del. > > Er, Paul, if you can see the echo: it's printable! Ah, but in Emacs the special function keys *are* echoed to the screen. Which, now that I think about it, makes the explanation below a better fit with how I think the markup should go. > More formally, I would reserve keycaps, et. al., to mark-up "function > keys": F1 and friends, as well as Ctl+Alt+Del, including the > you-would-never-type-this-character-in-typing-class category that > emacs loves so well. > > Attend me. It matters not that VI treats ":wq" specially in some > instances. What is important is that it's a readable sequence. All > VI commands follow the general form of either "<reps><action><destination>" > like "4cw" or a logical process like "wq". Massively <keycap>'ing them > destroys the semantics. On the other hand, the emacs key binding of > "Ctl-C Ctl-F foo \n" is not readable and should be <keycap>'ed > because there are two logical "function" keys introducing the > sequence. If only emacs had the kind of keyboard it needed, there > would be a special function key whose labels was "Funky Emacs > Function". I'll nobly resist rising to your baiting remarks, sir! ;-D > See the difference? A key or keys treated as a virtual function key > should be <keycap>'ed; anything else is just <userinput>. Reserve > the <keycap> family to convey the notion of a function key. > > And it just so happens that most logical function key combos are > non-printing... > > That any better? I think you better said the thing that I meant, so yes! -- Paul W. Frields, RHCE http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 Fedora Documentation Project: http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/docs/
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