emacs-31 fc3ba094015: * admin/notes/documentation: Describe quoting of key names.

Michael Albinus via Mailing list for Emacs changes <[email protected]> Sun, 19 Jul 2026 04:36:34 -0400 (EDT)
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branch: emacs-31
commit fc3ba094015fffb5edc3b026a0316a623ccefdcb
Author: Michael Albinus <[email protected]>
Commit: Michael Albinus <[email protected]>

    * admin/notes/documentation: Describe quoting of key names.
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 admin/notes/documentation | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/admin/notes/documentation b/admin/notes/documentation
index f6fa321b217..cb69269693c 100644
--- a/admin/notes/documentation
+++ b/admin/notes/documentation
@@ -145,6 +145,10 @@ This results in clickable Lisp symbols when the NEWS file is visited via
 follow this rule, like 'TAB' or ':type'.  Exception: the symbols t and
 nil are not quoted.
 
+Key names are embedded in angle brackets like '<LEFT>', except keys that
+have a special shorthand syntax: 'NUL', 'RET', 'TAB', 'LFD', 'ESC',
+'SPC' and 'DEL'.
+
 Arguments of a function are written in capital letters LIKE-THIS, and they
 are not quoted.