From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: [patch] 21.3 terminal.el -- Show help key at prompt Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 16:45:43 -0600 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <412FB997.2060304@yahoo.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1093646763 21955 80.91.224.253 (27 Aug 2004 22:46:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 22:46:03 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 28 00:45:50 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1C0pTh-0008Vj-00 for ; Sat, 28 Aug 2004 00:45:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C0pYO-0004W9-Mf for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2004 18:50:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C0pYM-0004W4-Ka for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2004 18:50:38 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C0pYK-0004Vh-Qt for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2004 18:50:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C0pYK-0004Ve-Ov for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2004 18:50:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [216.168.1.22] (helo=trinity.supernews.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1C0pTZ-0007JY-3B for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2004 18:45:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.fu-berlin.de ([130.133.1.2]:4764) by trinity.supernews.net with esmtp (Exim 4.24; FreeBSD) id 1C0pTY-000HiQ-50 for gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2004 22:45:40 +0000 Original-Received: by Mail.FU-Berlin.DE (Exim 4.42) from curry.zedat.fu-berlin.de ([160.45.10.36]) for gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org with esmtp id <1C0pTR-00058d-2R>; Sat, 28 Aug 2004 00:45:33 +0200 Original-Received: by Curry.ZEDAT.FU-Berlin.DE (Smail3.2.0.98) from news.uni-berlin.de with bsmtp id ; Sat, 28 Aug 2004 00:45:32 +0200 (MEST) Original-To: gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Original-Lines: 21 X-Orig-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de ilw+acvq9t/8UpuqChUsDwAIGp1+IKIc3S7No8X7g7DlMa6dg= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:8831 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:8831 Jari Aalto+mail.emacs wrote: > I think it would be good if the prompt indicated which key to press to > get help. Here is the patch. > > > 2004-08-28 Sat Jari Aalto > > * terminal.el (te-escape): Show `?' in prompt for help key. If `?' does something useful, it must be bound to some command (te-escape-help) in some map (terminal-escape-map). So instead of a literal `?' in the prompt, you should look it up: (format "...%s..." ... (substitute-command-keys "\\\\[te-escape-help]") ...) -- Kevin Rodgers