From: David.Kastrup@t-online.de (David Kastrup)
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Will default key bindings spell the death of Emacs?
Date: 03 Jun 2003 00:05:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <x5vfvo9lum.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3EDBC154.40009@yahoo.com>
Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com> writes:
> How about:
>
>
> (kbd (read-string "Key (`kbd' format): "))
>
> That seems to require the following patch; is this a known bug in `kbd'?
>
> *** emacs-21.3/lisp/subr.el.orig Fri Oct 18 19:21:10 2002
> --- emacs-21.3/lisp/subr.el Mon Jun 2 15:25:36 2003
> ***************
> *** 438,444 ****
> "Convert KEYS to the internal Emacs key representation.
> KEYS should be a string constant in the format used for
> saving keyboard macros (see `insert-kbd-macro')."
> ! (read-kbd-macro keys))
>
> (put 'keyboard-translate-table 'char-table-extra-slots 0)
>
> --- 438,444 ----
> "Convert KEYS to the internal Emacs key representation.
> KEYS should be a string constant in the format used for
> saving keyboard macros (see `insert-kbd-macro')."
> ! `(read-kbd-macro ,keys))
>
> (put 'keyboard-translate-table 'char-table-extra-slots 0)
Well, what about "KEYS should be a string constant" don't you
understand? It is documented right there in the piece you have quoted
in the patch, and it is probably this way for efficiency reasons.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
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2003-05-29 20:57 ` Will default key bindings spell the death of Emacs? Lars Hansen
2003-05-29 21:47 ` Miles Bader
2003-05-29 22:04 ` Lars Hansen
2003-05-29 22:45 ` Miles Bader
2003-05-30 6:52 ` Lars Hansen
2003-05-30 10:11 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2003-05-30 10:32 ` Alex Schroeder
2003-05-30 10:52 ` Miles Bader
2003-05-30 12:06 ` Jan D.
2003-05-30 11:06 ` Lars Hansen
2003-05-30 11:19 ` Juanma Barranquero
2003-05-30 16:27 ` Alex Schroeder
2003-05-30 17:09 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-05-30 17:13 ` Richard Stallman
2003-05-31 20:19 ` David Kastrup
2003-05-31 21:31 ` Robert J. Chassell
2003-06-01 0:14 ` David Kastrup
2003-06-01 11:24 ` Robert J. Chassell
2003-06-01 12:12 ` David Kastrup
2003-06-01 19:36 ` Jan D.
2003-06-01 19:43 ` David Kastrup
2003-06-01 20:18 ` Jan D.
2003-05-29 23:58 ` Alan Shutko
2003-05-30 0:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-05-30 5:20 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-05-30 17:29 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-05-30 19:55 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-06-02 21:27 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-06-02 22:05 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2003-06-03 16:25 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-06-03 20:28 ` David Kastrup
2003-06-02 22:42 ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-06-03 16:26 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-05-30 7:16 ` Lars Hansen
2003-05-30 13:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-05-31 19:52 ` Richard Stallman
2003-05-31 20:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-06-02 11:15 ` Richard Stallman
2003-06-02 17:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-06-03 10:58 ` Richard Stallman
2003-05-30 13:26 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-05-30 0:47 ` Tak Ota
2003-05-30 1:48 ` Miles Bader
2003-05-30 5:19 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-05-30 6:09 ` Miles Bader
2003-05-30 17:13 ` Richard Stallman
2003-05-30 19:58 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-06-01 15:52 ` Richard Stallman
2003-06-01 17:05 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-05-29 22:10 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-05-30 5:13 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-05-30 6:33 ` Miles Bader
2003-05-30 7:53 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-05-30 8:05 ` Miles Bader
2003-05-30 13:26 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-06-04 11:20 ` Andreas Schwab
2003-06-04 12:49 ` Lars Hansen
2003-06-04 13:08 ` David Kastrup
2003-06-05 12:13 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2003-06-05 21:46 ` Richard Stallman
2003-06-05 21:55 ` David Kastrup
2003-06-05 12:45 Robert J. Chassell
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2003-05-30 8:57 Lars Hansen
[not found] <E19LWOR-0001eW-Nm@monty-python.gnu.org>
2003-05-30 6:36 ` Lars Hansen
[not found] <1054178219.882.88.camel@morgan>
2003-05-29 14:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-05-29 14:38 ` Jan D.
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