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Re: fix use of @kbd and @key in gdb.texinfo

> Cc: Bob Wilson <bwilson@tensilica.com>,  gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
> From: Jim Blandy <jimb@codesourcery.com>
> Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 10:52:29 -0700
> 
> Doesn't the gdb documentation incorporate the readline user
> documentation?

Yes, it does.

> That does include a section on the Emacs notation.

Yes, but I still have no reason to believe that anyone who reads the
few references to Ctrl-C etc. throughout the rest of the GDB manual is
familiar with that notation.

> 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.

Again, there's no way I can be sure that explanation is known to
whoever reads about Ctrl-C and Ctrl-D elsewhere in the manual.
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