"Drew Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is that > the form [?\C- ] > > is generally preferred over the form "\C- ", for a key binding. > > These two key sequences represent quite different bindings. > You can't get > one override the other, it depends on the terminal which key you receive > on typing C-space. > > Whenever either is acceptable, is one of the two preferred in Emacs-Lisp > code, for binding keys? My understanding was that the vector form was > preferred.
IMHO there is no real preference. The string notation can only represent a limited set of keys, but is easier to read when it works. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
