unofficial mirror of bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 
 help / color / mirror / code / Atom feed
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: 38642@debbugs.gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, juri@linkov.net
Subject: bug#38642: 'C-x RET c' gets stuck in universal-argument loop
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2019 18:11:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83h81z3pa3.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87woavswcy.fsf@igel.home> (message from Andreas Schwab on Tue, 17 Dec 2019 00:07:25 +0100)

> From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
> Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2019 00:07:25 +0100
> Cc: 38642@debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> 
> > emacs -Q
> > C-x RET c       ;; universal-coding-system-argument
> > RET             ;; accept default e.g. utf-8-unix
> > C-u C-b         ;; moves backwards 4 chars
> > C-b C-b C-b ...
> >
> > Every C-b still moves backwards 4 chars because it gets stuck with an old
> > 'prefix-arg' in the 'while' loop in 'universal-coding-system-argument'.
> 
> It makes assumptions about universal-argument-map that are no longer
> true since commit 02ef6c1a8a.

Stefan, any ideas for how to fix this unintended consequence?

TIA





  reply	other threads:[~2019-12-17 16:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-12-16 21:56 bug#38642: 'C-x RET c' gets stuck in universal-argument loop Juri Linkov
2019-12-16 23:07 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-12-17 16:11   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-12-20 22:52     ` Stefan Monnier
2019-12-21  7:10       ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-23 21:09         ` Stefan Monnier
2020-01-19 22:11         ` Stefan Monnier
2020-01-20 16:24           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-20 17:01             ` Stefan Monnier

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

  List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=83h81z3pa3.fsf@gnu.org \
    --to=eliz@gnu.org \
    --cc=38642@debbugs.gnu.org \
    --cc=juri@linkov.net \
    --cc=monnier@iro.umontreal.ca \
    --cc=schwab@linux-m68k.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox

	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).