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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
Cc: 32738@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#32738: 26.1.50; 'read-answer' allows only single characters as short answers
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2018 19:51:54 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <834lepidw5.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87in361ixu.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (message from Juri Linkov on Sun, 16 Sep 2018 01:42:37 +0300)

> From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
> Cc: 32738@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2018 01:42:37 +0300
> 
> Do you think it should support only characters with modifiers like C-M-h,
> or also key sequences?  I guess the latter since this will lift all
> restrictions on the KEY arg of define-key.

Yes, I agree.

> -                                   (format "%c" (nth 1 a))
> +                                   (if (characterp (nth 1 a))
> +                                       (format "%c" (nth 1 a))
> +                                     (key-description (nth 1 a)))

This will still display C-a s ^A.  I suggest to use
single-key-description instead.

Thanks.





  reply	other threads:[~2018-09-16 16:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-15  9:04 bug#32738: 26.1.50; 'read-answer' allows only single characters as short answers Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-15 22:42 ` Juri Linkov
2018-09-16 16:51   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2018-09-16 23:00     ` Juri Linkov
2019-12-08 23:28     ` Juri Linkov

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