Re: save-some-buffers' "^R" sends user to recursive edit view modeanxiety

Re: save-some-buffers' "^R" sends user to recursive edit view modeanxiety

[Kevin Rodgers]

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Dan Jacobson wrote:

> Also, regarding the "^R to display the current buffer;" message
> itself. It must have been real early emacs. Don't put a real live ^R
> there, some of us cut and paste into gnus and then gnus tells us
> there's illegible text and we end up having to repair it on the
> outgoing spool as gnus wasn't forthcoming about where it was enough.
> A "^" . "R" is better, but "C-r" is more consistent.

I think the problem is actually in map-y-or-n-p:



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*** emacs-21.3/lisp/map-ynp.el.orig	Sun Jul 15 10:15:34 2001
--- emacs-21.3/lisp/map-ynp.el	Tue Jun 17 08:41:54 2003
***************
*** 207,214 ****
  					objects)
  				(mapconcat (function
  					    (lambda (elt)
! 					      (format "%c to %s"
! 						      (nth 0 elt)
  						      (nth 2 elt))))
  					   action-alist
  					   ";\n")
--- 207,216 ----
  					objects)
  				(mapconcat (function
  					    (lambda (elt)
! 					      (format "%s to %s"
! 						      (key-description
! 						       (char-to-string
! 							(nth 0 elt)))
  						      (nth 2 elt))))
  					   action-alist
  					   ";\n")

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