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From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: Fox Kiester <foxkies@gmail.com>
Cc: 29203@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#29203: 26.0.50; Binding a key to (MAP . CHAR) no longer works
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2019 03:32:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y2wnqh0m.fsf@marxist.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOS0dwDiHwuH+8pksf-AM_EMezm=gpMY_i_quCMAE9L+98+NvA@mail.gmail.com> (Fox Kiester's message of "Tue, 7 Nov 2017 21:54:32 -0500")

found 29203 27.0.50
thanks

Fox Kiester <foxkies@gmail.com> writes:

> According to the docstring of define-key, a cons of (MAP . CHAR) is
> a valid key definition that will act as CHAR in MAP. This worked in
> previous versions of Emacs but now causes an error when the
> keybinding is executed: "Wrong type argument: commandp..."
>
> Initial discussion took place here: https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/36641/binding-a-key-to-map-char

I can reproduce this using:

0. (define-key global-map (kbd "C-c ,") (cons help-map ?r))
1. C-c ,

Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

> This is apparently a regression, introduced in Emacs 24.
> The problem does not exist in Emacs 20 through Emacs 23.

So was the behaviour changed willingly?  That is, is this a bug in the
documentation or in the code?

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas





  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-11-11  2:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-08  2:54 bug#29203: 26.0.50; Binding a key to (MAP . CHAR) no longer works Fox Kiester
2017-11-08 14:59 ` Drew Adams
2019-11-11  2:32 ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2019-11-11  3:51   ` Drew Adams
2019-11-11 19:09     ` Stefan Kangas

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