Support Q: How many args for self-insert-command

Support Q: How many args for self-insert-command

[Boruch Baum]

At what version did Emacs change the number of ARGs for
self-insert-command?

I only have available versions 26 (one arg) and a September v28-snapshot
(two args), so this is really asking about the state at release version
27 (still not available to me in debian).

The answer can be found at 'C-h f self-insert-command' for anyone with
the version.

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Re: Support Q: How many args for self-insert-command

[Robin Tarsiger]

Boruch Baum wrote:
> At what version did Emacs change the number of ARGs for
> self-insert-command?
> 
> I only have available versions 26 (one arg) and a September v28-snapshot
> (two args), so this is really asking about the state at release version
> 27 (still not available to me in debian).

Here's an answer with implied pointers to sources for similar answers:

git annotate shows that a relevant line in cmds.c was changed by
commit 81f0e05 on 2018-11-17, with the log entry:

  * src/cmds.c (Fself_insert_command): Get last-command-event via (new) arg.

The diff for that commit shows that it also adds an entry to etc/NEWS
under "Lisp Changes in Emacs 27.1".

To confirm from a different perspective, the Emacs 27.1 I'm using from
Arch has the two-argument form.

-RTT

Re: Support Q: How many args for self-insert-command

[Boruch Baum]

Thanks, Robin. I don't have the local resources for an emacs git
repository to be able to do what you did, and debian says that
installing their Emacs27 from their testing repository will introduce
'grave' bugs with ssh/libcrypt/poppler/... packages.

On 2021-01-18 06:55, Robin Tarsiger wrote:
> Boruch Baum wrote:
> > At what version did Emacs change the number of ARGs for
> > self-insert-command?
> >
> > I only have available versions 26 (one arg) and a September v28-snapshot
> > (two args), so this is really asking about the state at release version
> > 27 (still not available to me in debian).
>
> Here's an answer with implied pointers to sources for similar answers:
>
> git annotate shows that a relevant line in cmds.c was changed by
> commit 81f0e05 on 2018-11-17, with the log entry:
>
>   * src/cmds.c (Fself_insert_command): Get last-command-event via (new) arg.
>
> The diff for that commit shows that it also adds an entry to etc/NEWS
> under "Lisp Changes in Emacs 27.1".
>
> To confirm from a different perspective, the Emacs 27.1 I'm using from
> Arch has the two-argument form.
>
> -RTT

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Re: Support Q: How many args for self-insert-command

[Basil L. Contovounesios]

Boruch Baum <boruch_baum@gmx.com> writes:

> Thanks, Robin. I don't have the local resources for an emacs git
> repository to be able to do what you did

FWIW, you can grep the sources or etc/NEWS, from either a Git checkout
or release tarball, without needing to build Emacs.

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Re: Support Q: How many args for self-insert-command

[Boruch Baum]

On 2021-01-18 14:14, Basil L. Contovounesios wrote:
> Boruch Baum <boruch_baum@gmx.com> writes:
>
> > Thanks, Robin. I don't have the local resources for an emacs git
> > repository to be able to do what you did
>
> FWIW, you can grep the sources or etc/NEWS, from either a Git checkout
> or release tarball, without needing to build Emacs.

That game's *initial* ante is on the order of 250Mb, last I checked,
right?

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Re: Support Q: How many args for self-insert-command

[Basil L. Contovounesios]

Boruch Baum <boruch_baum@gmx.com> writes:

> On 2021-01-18 14:14, Basil L. Contovounesios wrote:
>> Boruch Baum <boruch_baum@gmx.com> writes:
>>
>> > Thanks, Robin. I don't have the local resources for an emacs git
>> > repository to be able to do what you did
>>
>> FWIW, you can grep the sources or etc/NEWS, from either a Git checkout
>> or release tarball, without needing to build Emacs.
>
> That game's *initial* ante is on the order of 250Mb, last I checked,
> right?

Uncompressed, yes.

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Re: Support Q: How many args for self-insert-command

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Thanks, Robin. I don't have the local resources for an emacs git
>> repository to be able to do what you did
> FWIW, you can grep the sources or etc/NEWS, from either a Git checkout
> or release tarball, without needing to build Emacs.

    % git clone --single-branch --depth 1 git://git.sv.gnu.org/emacs

Transfers about 42MB and uses up a .git of about 43MB, and checking out
the resulting branch takes up an additional 160MB of disk space.

But you can go straight to the NEWS file(s) without fetching the whole
tree via:

    http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/etc/


-- Stefan

RE: Support Q: How many args for self-insert-command

[Drew Adams]

> At what version did Emacs change the number of ARGs for
> self-insert-command?

Emacs 27.1