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<p dir="auto">On 4 Mar 2019, at 15:18, David Reitter wrote:</p>
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<p dir="auto">What is SLIME trying to achieve here?</p>
<p dir="auto">That’s the first question we need to ask.</p>
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<p dir="auto">I wish I knew!</p>
<p dir="auto">The call to <code style="background-color:#F7F7F7; border-radius:3px; margin:0; padding:0 0.4em" bgcolor="#F7F7F7">key-description</code> was added to <code style="background-color:#F7F7F7; border-radius:3px; margin:0; padding:0 0.4em" bgcolor="#F7F7F7">slime-selector</code> by Stas Boukaraev, in a commit whose comment reads: </p>
<pre style="background-color:#F7F7F7; border-radius:5px 5px 5px 5px; margin-left:15px; margin-right:15px; max-width:90vw; overflow-x:auto; padding:5px" bgcolor="#F7F7F7"><code style="background-color:#F7F7F7; border-radius:3px; margin:0; padding:0" bgcolor="#F7F7F7">slime-selector: accept C-x.
Treat C-x/M-x as "x".
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<p dir="auto">I have no idea how the call to <code style="background-color:#F7F7F7; border-radius:3px; margin:0; padding:0 0.4em" bgcolor="#F7F7F7">key-description</code> achieves this, except that if the key sequence read is of length three, he throws away the first and second elements. Presumably because he expects them to be <code style="background-color:#F7F7F7; border-radius:3px; margin:0; padding:0 0.4em" bgcolor="#F7F7F7">?C</code> and <code style="background-color:#F7F7F7; border-radius:3px; margin:0; padding:0 0.4em" bgcolor="#F7F7F7">?-</code></p>
<p dir="auto">I have no idea why it's a good thing to accept "Ctrl-X" but treat it as just "x". That seems wrong to me. In a following commit he translates the TAB key into the character lower-case "I", which also seems ... ????</p>
<p dir="auto">Recognizing multi-character sequences seems reasonable, but translating them into arbitrary other meanings seems weird to me.</p>
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