definition automatically. Avoid constructing the names in the macro
itself, since that would confuse these tools.
-@item
-Please keep the names of your Emacs Lisp source files to 13 characters
-or less. This way, if the files are compiled, the compiled files' names
-will be 14 characters or less, which is short enough to fit on all kinds
-of Unix systems.
-
@item
In some other systems there is a convention of choosing variable names
that begin and end with @samp{*}. We don't use that convention in Emacs
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@end smallexample
If you have signed papers to assign the copyright to the Foundation,
any context prevents recognition of escape sequences as function keys in
that context.
+@item
+Similarly, don't bind a key sequence ending in @key{C-g}, since that
+is commonly used to cancel a key sequence.
+
@item
Anything which acts like a temporary mode or state which the user can
enter and leave should define @kbd{@key{ESC} @key{ESC}} or