In this manual I have adopted a consistent notation for all key presses, since most editor commands are invoked via a typed key sequence it is very important that you can decipher this notation.
Note that the term `input event' (or `event') and the term `key press' have been used interchangeably throughout this manual. A `key press' may mean a mouse event, they don't always come from the keyboard.
Every key press has a set of modifiers; these are the keys such as "Shift" or "Control" which don't actually produce a character when typed, they only effect the rest of the keyboard. Each key, then, can have one or more modifiers.
The name of an event consists of zero or more hyphen-separated modifier names, followed by a hyphen and the name of the actual event.
Some commands are triggered by more than one of these key presses; press each key (or do whatever is necessary to precipitate the input event) in turn to invoke the command.
Note that the case of modifiers is not important, however some of the keys are, so you should always specify them in their correct case.
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