Re: Moving kbd to subr.el

[Gregory Heytings]

> > What I was suggesting is to allow both syntaxes for one Emacs release, 
> > and to deprecate the "strings where every char represents an event" in 
> > the next Emacs release (or possibly to create a specific notation for 
> > them if removing them is not possible).
>
> Removing or changing the current string-based syntax would be 
> impossible, so a plan that starts with as a criterion is already dead.

Hence the "create a specific notation for them if removing them is not 
possible".  E.g. use a "{string}" syntax in the (rare) cases where the 
current string-based syntax is necessary, and use the "string" syntax in 
all other cases.