key description consistency
Martin Buchholz writes:
XEmacs, to be ``friendly'', uses a short form of the name of
the key
(SPC instead of space), but then doesn't allow SPC to be used when
defining keys. This has bugged me for years.
Why not
- accept FSF key formats and any formats XEmacs currently prints out
for the purposes of define-key and friends
OK with me, so long as we don't screw existing XEmacs users.
- always print out key descriptions in the preferred form that
define-key currently accepts. This would mean, for example, that if
the user types C-x 4 and pauses, he would see this prompt in the
echo area:
(control x) ?4 -
It's ugly, but I could get used to this. The abbreviated syntax
we have now is nice because it uses less space. ^X 4 is even
better. Maybe we should make it configurable.