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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: 16677@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#16677: 24.3.50; Wrong type argument: char-or-string-p, 67108923
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 18:57:20 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2ba9d857-f8b1-4f0b-8640-41229d998838@default> (raw)

emacs -Q

C-q C-;

Gives the cited error message.  It should give a more user
interface-level error, saying something to the effect that the key
sequence you used does not correspond to a character.

Note: in Emacs 20, this just inserts the escape character (^[), which is
wrong.  In Emacs 22, it just inserts the semicolon character (;), which
is also wrong.

Emacs 23 got it right, but it did not make the extra effort to give the
user an error message that s?he deserves: something more helpful than a
low-level barf message (even if that message might be comprehensible to
a knowledgable Emacs user).

Emacs can do better than that - this is, after all, a command, i.e.,
something that users use directly.

(I discovered this by accident, when my fingers slipped.)

In GNU Emacs 24.3.50.1 (i686-pc-mingw32)
 of 2014-02-02 on ODIEONE
Bzr revision: 116242 rudalics@gmx.at-20140202130041-n967dw77nw7ztvy9
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601
Configured using:
 `configure --prefix=/c/Devel/emacs/binary --enable-checking=yes,glyphs
 'CFLAGS=-O0 -g3' LDFLAGS=-Lc:/Devel/emacs/lib
 CPPFLAGS=-Ic:/Devel/emacs/include'





             reply	other threads:[~2014-02-07  2:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-07  2:57 Drew Adams [this message]
2014-02-07  3:55 ` bug#16677: 24.3.50; Wrong type argument: char-or-string-p, 67108923 Juanma Barranquero
2014-02-07  8:01   ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-02-07 10:52     ` Juanma Barranquero
2014-02-07 11:15       ` Juanma Barranquero
2014-02-08 10:20       ` Juri Linkov
     [not found] <<2ba9d857-f8b1-4f0b-8640-41229d998838@default>
     [not found] ` <<CAAeL0STsVYYLN+AVaGkA-NAcV5WKyHevGrcdMjBntVWC5Oy=Eg@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]   ` <<83ppmzxseg.fsf@gnu.org>
2014-02-07 17:02     ` Drew Adams

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