From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#1525: prompt string for execute-extended-command not flexible Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:20:35 -0400 Message-ID: <87aackb2ws.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1310440891 26664 80.91.229.12 (12 Jul 2011 03:21:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 03:21:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: xah lee , 1525@debbugs.gnu.org To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 12 05:21:27 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QgTXL-0003hK-7l for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Jul 2011 05:21:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42846 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QgTXK-0001rb-EQ for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:21:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:52819) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QgTX1-0001rD-8j for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:21:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QgTWx-0002bk-Hm for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:21:06 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:47469) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QgTWx-0002bg-9i for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:21:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QgTWv-00016U-Py; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:21:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Chong Yidong Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 03:21:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 1525 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 1525-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B1525.13104408434218 (code B ref 1525); Tue, 12 Jul 2011 03:21:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 1525) by debbugs.gnu.org; 12 Jul 2011 03:20:43 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QgTWc-00015z-MV for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:20:42 -0400 Original-Received: from vm-emlprdomr-06.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.147]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QgTWc-00015o-16 for 1525@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:20:42 -0400 Original-Received: from furball (dhcp128036225145.central.yale.edu [128.36.225.145]) (authenticated bits=0) by vm-emlprdomr-06.its.yale.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p6C3KalJ023117 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT); Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:20:36 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sun, 10 Jul 2011 15:15:51 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.71 on 130.132.50.147 X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:21:01 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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 Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:48689 Archived-At: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > (local-set-key [(meta z)] 'execute-extended-command) > > Then you still get "M-x" as the prompt if you do `M-z'. > > The reason is that it looks up the command first, and then picks one of > the bindings as the description, with code that's kinda like this: > > (key-description (car (where-is-internal 'execute-extended-command))) > > Is there any reason it doesn't just use this_command_keys which > presumably would be more correct? OTOH, you might get into a tricky situation if execute-extended-command was launched by, say, a mouse event.