From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: YE Qianchuan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Is it legal to set `help-char' to nil? Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2013 23:29:48 +0800 Message-ID: <516979EC.6040602@gmail.com> References: <8738uyo2r3.fsf@web.de> <5166809E.6060305@gmail.com> <87vc7tcoz7.fsf@web.de> <5167DE74.90409@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1365867033 21005 80.91.229.3 (13 Apr 2013 15:30:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2013 15:30:33 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 13 17:30:37 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UR2PR-0006jk-8y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Apr 2013 17:30:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49567 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UR2PQ-0004Ca-NO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Apr 2013 11:30:32 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:53312) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UR2PF-0004CV-Je for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Apr 2013 11:30:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UR2PE-00054V-I4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Apr 2013 11:30:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-pb0-f50.google.com ([209.85.160.50]:63672) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UR2PE-00054L-Cm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Apr 2013 11:30:20 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-pb0-f50.google.com with SMTP id jt11so1839531pbb.23 for ; Sat, 13 Apr 2013 08:30:19 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=IWPMXlAlwjLvhp2ezat0Y9LQMEghmOA22mUsxPNF06Q=; b=xn9ui1jqJPpIZTIT4SQyZzEikII60pK7AoiagcKfdBmZpLmhzB6QULCxv48Fz5H0QD IGfbyXfmWJGw5plclMnJYqTQDyGhtkRuV1xkxuVbD476N6OYnh69JGZ3fnJTB9200g+2 /1/7CA9ucVfTyLdjg0oBllUDDLFIauYB+YueXYeptRKBqzCiNkn072qhqrhYXSyu54Sk XkxTXwb8dOyIoCI2QmUzKNDXtuOYy5jdAOdDYN3254WsqR0s4XZlROoJf2WvfjA96mhS Btm4cFBdi57ITNG+LOcBwg5QyHZx02QSK43bm3E84DGedFmujumQppfd0kzLVYZfwcH4 CiJA== X-Received: by 10.66.148.132 with SMTP id ts4mr21127174pab.19.1365867018993; Sat, 13 Apr 2013 08:30:18 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [0.0.0.0] ([2605:6400:2:fed5:22:178d:9007:c212]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id pb14sm12963190pbb.27.2013.04.13.08.30.11 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sat, 13 Apr 2013 08:30:17 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130403 Thunderbird/17.0.5 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 209.85.160.50 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:90145 Archived-At: On 04/13/2013 12:54 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote: >>> 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. > You can use an "unlikely" char, such as \uffff. > > > Stefan > > Good tips. This is the best solution so far. Thank you.