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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
Cc: 55940@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#55940: macOS: <ns-show-prefs> displayed as keybinding for \\[customize]
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2022 17:07:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mtegr49m.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkm=Vyjv4Neske8RRcA3EMbU-XknhRmmHmgwdhe4xCZQD9w@mail.gmail.com> (Stefan Kangas's message of "Mon, 13 Jun 2022 14:01:40 +0200")

Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:

> I have no idea how to press the key "<ns-show-prefs>" - I don't think
> there is such a button?  There is also the keybinding "s-," which is
> slightly more useful (but not as useful as showing just "M-x
> customize", IMHO.)

That is pretty obscure.  Do we have some mechanism for making
`substitute-command-keys' avoid such "keys"?  I vaguely remember a
similar problem with a different event like this showing up in doc
strings...

On the other hand, as Po says -- "<ns-show-prefs>" is an actual key
binding in NS builds, apparently?  So...  Uhm...

> Please consider showing "s-," or "M-x customize" instead of
> "<ns-show-prefs>" here.
>
> Steps to reproduce:
> 0. emacs -Q
> 1. C-h v calendar-date-style RET

I see that the \\=`...' syntax doesn't allow saying \\=`M-x foo' (it has
to be a valid key stroke).  I think it would make sense to allow
explicit M-x commands like this, so I've added this to Emacs 29.

But I've not amended the calendar-date-style doc string, because this
should be fixed in a more general way for `M-x customize', which I'm
sure is in a whole bunch of doc strings.  I'm not sure what the solution
here would be, though.  It would be easy enough to add a block-list
mechanism for `substitute-command-keys', but it seems a bit hacky.

-- 
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-06-13 15:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-06-13 12:01 bug#55940: macOS: <ns-show-prefs> displayed as keybinding for \\[customize] Stefan Kangas
2022-06-13 12:30 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-06-13 15:07   ` Stefan Kangas
2022-06-14  6:07     ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-06-14  9:02       ` Daniel Martín via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-06-14  9:46         ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-06-14 10:58           ` Stefan Kangas
2022-06-14 11:20           ` Daniel Martín via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-06-13 15:07 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2022-06-13 15:16   ` Stefan Kangas
2022-06-13 15:20     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-14 12:05       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-17 22:40         ` Stefan Kangas
2022-06-18 12:06           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-21 12:39             ` Stefan Kangas

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