From: YE Qianchuan <stool.ye@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Is it legal to set `help-char' to nil?
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 18:14:12 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5167DE74.90409@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vc7tcoz7.fsf@web.de>
On 04/11/2013 06:59 PM, Michael Heerdegen wrote:
> I can reproduce this. The error happens when loading "ehelp", here, in
> the definition of `electric-help-map':
>
> (define-key map (char-to-string help-char) 'electric-help-help)
Thanks for the explanation. It makes sense now.
>
> Similar examples are spread over diverse other elisp files. So, we know
> now that Emacs indeed assumes that `help-char' is a character (and not
> nil), so nil is not allowed as a value.
OK, so it answered my question. nil is not legal for `help-char'.
>
> I don't have a better solution than to bind `help-char' to a different
> character. You could also create a bug report - I think what you want
> could be made possible, but I don't know if emacs-dev would do it.
All the legal characters have been defined for other commands, or can't
be used in terminal.
It's fine with me to just leave C-h for help in those cases.
Thank you.
>
> Regards,
>
> Michael.
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2013-04-10 14:49 ` Is it legal to set `help-char' to nil? Michael Heerdegen
[not found] ` <8738uyo2r3.fsf@web.de>
2013-04-11 9:21 ` YE Qianchuan
2013-04-11 10:59 ` Michael Heerdegen
2013-04-12 10:14 ` YE Qianchuan [this message]
2013-04-12 16:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-04-13 15:29 ` YE Qianchuan
2013-04-06 10:27 YE Qianchuan
2013-04-06 11:04 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-04-06 14:13 ` YE Qianchuan
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