From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#7631: 24.0.50; inconsistency in event-convert-list and event-basic-type Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2021 12:09:43 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Stefan Monnier Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="23947"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: 7631@debbugs.gnu.org, Lars Ingebrigtsen To: Don March Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 18 20:37:24 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1m5BfI-00066E-7W for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 18 Jul 2021 20:37:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57022 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m5BfH-0004VT-7t for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 18 Jul 2021 14:37:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:50804) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m5Bew-000448-U3 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Jul 2021 14:37:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:45696) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m5Bew-0006mF-Mo for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Jul 2021 14:37:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1m5Bew-0002uE-LI for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Jul 2021 14:37:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Stefan Monnier Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2021 18:37:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 7631 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: moreinfo Original-Received: via spool by 7631-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B7631.162663339211096 (code B ref 7631); Sun, 18 Jul 2021 18:37:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 7631) by debbugs.gnu.org; 18 Jul 2021 18:36:32 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57235 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1m5BeS-0002su-Mx for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 18 Jul 2021 14:36:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mailscanner.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.25.50]:4213) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1m5BeR-0002sf-8B for 7631@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 18 Jul 2021 14:36:32 -0400 Original-Received: from pmg1.iro.umontreal.ca (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by pmg1.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id D152F100216; Sun, 18 Jul 2021 12:09:45 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (unknown [172.31.2.1]) by pmg1.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id B17F91001E8; Sun, 18 Jul 2021 12:09:44 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=iro.umontreal.ca; s=mail; t=1626624584; bh=hv12qtqz4y1LMeQ9tU9s+naXLDxIFrZ0Sf8br0mlOIo=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:References:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=LGn2WvqT/TR56LOkjFNluHMPu0WkYNDalW5jP64Leobcd+XYI1w4EjScLIKkxcjoo wFJPqJmc0hLDRwcxyRTjd03eztK5ftHKBSiir0co+l3ZNXqI6jjz0ifvx1GNxut2gX uO5gg8ov3gT8RHQiQIi6iC9RJ8ZfSF/he8cjji0bieZEh/hiWkqoLE8sBXvim7ucLl ZbnhA0Z0SLQkL19gyCsFbG/GmEVHvYCXlH016FJKVuYXcqK2JHAKcaAJWJHbBpQjwV WvPRfKlKo9L7Q+LhCEFE34otyqIxdv503mNNePnnRPEMNBLQXMuHM6kBvQOtCBBBFi +r1b437WazKSA== Original-Received: from alfajor (unknown [216.154.29.138]) by mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 726F4120270; Sun, 18 Jul 2021 12:09:44 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Don March's message of "Mon, 13 Dec 2010 22:36:20 -0500") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:210200 Archived-At: Don March wrote: > (event-convert-list > (append (event-modifiers event) > (list (event-basic-type event)))) ; => 116, not t > > In my mind, this should be an identity function (in the mathematical > sense) for events; In general, it literally can't be: there are several "equivalent" representations of a given event and `event-convert-list` should return a "canonical" version. E.g. it should return `C-M-return` when `event` is `M-C-return`. There is no "canonical event" `t`, instead Emacs uses `?t` as the canonical event for hitting the key `t`. Lars wrote: > So if this isn't a bug (and I think it would be problematic to change > the return value at this point), the doc string is at least slightly > misleading here, and shouldn't claim that it returns exactly the same > base event type. Fair enough, Stefan