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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: kritixilithos@gmail.com, 38775@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#38775: (kbd "C-x ( ... C-x )") gulps "C-x (" and "C-x )"
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2019 19:24:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83mubcnz16.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87woagzc4u.fsf@igel.home> (message from Andreas Schwab on Sat, 28 Dec 2019 16:46:25 +0100)

> From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
> Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2019 16:46:25 +0100
> Cc: 38775@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> On Dez 28 2019, Kritixi Lithos wrote:
> 
> > From `emacs -Q`, I write `(kbd "C-x ( C-d C-x )")` in the buffer, then
> > evaluate it using `C-M-x`, which gives "^D" instead of the expected
> > "^X(^D^X)".
> 
> That's because kbd is just a wrapper around read-kbd-macro.

Yes, and FWIW Emacs always worked like that (I checked a far back as
Emacs 23.1).





  reply	other threads:[~2019-12-28 17:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-12-28 15:12 bug#38775: (kbd "C-x ( ... C-x )") gulps "C-x (" and "C-x )" Kritixi Lithos
2019-12-28 15:46 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-12-28 17:24   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-12-28 19:36   ` Kritixi Lithos
2021-08-30  2:24     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-03 14:21     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-03 14:39       ` Kritixi Lithos
     [not found] <<783E4006-081B-404D-A606-30862A0BA1CF@gmail.com>
     [not found] ` <<87woagzc4u.fsf@igel.home>
     [not found]   ` <<83mubcnz16.fsf@gnu.org>
2019-12-28 18:22     ` Drew Adams

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