From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13080 invoked by alias); 24 Oct 2006 17:52:35 -0000 Received: (qmail 13066 invoked by uid 22791); 24 Oct 2006 17:52:33 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.codesourcery.com (HELO mail.codesourcery.com) (65.74.133.4) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Tue, 24 Oct 2006 17:52:28 +0000 Received: (qmail 24572 invoked from network); 24 Oct 2006 17:52:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost) (jimb@127.0.0.2) by mail.codesourcery.com with ESMTPA; 24 Oct 2006 17:52:26 -0000 To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: Bob Wilson , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: fix use of @kbd and @key in gdb.texinfo References: <452BECD7.4010402@tensilica.com> From: Jim Blandy Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 17:52:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 10 Oct 2006 23:45:17 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-10/txt/msg00272.txt.bz2 Eli Zaretskii writes: > Specifically, I don't want to use the Emacs C-c notation in parts of > the documentation that are not related to Emacs, because I fear that > users who are not familiar with Emacs will not know what C-c means > without explanation. (The Emacs manual has a lengthy chapter > explaining that, but GDB doesn't.) So please change C-c etc. back to > Ctrl-C form, except where Emacs is involved. [Going through mail backlog] Doesn't the gdb documentation incorporate the readline user documentation? That does include a section on the Emacs notation. I had thought the intention is to use the C- and M- notation across Project GNU, but I can't find a reference for that. We do explain M- in the manual, in the section "Command Completion". We could do the same for C-, and then we could actually use the same notation throughout the manual.