Best tagging practice: multi-key sequences?
Paul W. Frields
stickster at gmail.com
Thu Nov 24 13:34:05 UTC 2005
On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 19:30 -0600, Tommy Reynolds wrote:
> Uttered "Paul W. Frields" <stickster at gmail.com>, 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!
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