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. --- 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.