From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Vexing problem with read-char-exclusive (ELISP) Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 23:46:54 -0400 Message-ID: References: <8828cd07-bee6-4f5e-9c90-930f41e06f70@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1375331539 7625 80.91.229.3 (1 Aug 2013 04:32:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2013 04:32:19 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 01 06:32:21 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 1V4kYm-0008Sf-Nm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Aug 2013 06:32:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48267 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V4kYl-0004qy-Sm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Aug 2013 00:32:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59604) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V4kYV-0004qn-0R for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Aug 2013 00:32:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V4jtu-0000yp-7m for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Jul 2013 23:50:14 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:56983) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V4jtt-0000yM-WE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Jul 2013 23:50:06 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V4jtr-0002Z5-Nb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Aug 2013 05:50:03 +0200 Original-Received: from 69-165-155-237.dsl.teksavvy.com ([69.165.155.237]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 01 Aug 2013 05:50:03 +0200 Original-Received: from monnier by 69-165-155-237.dsl.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 01 Aug 2013 05:50:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 69-165-155-237.dsl.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:OPzry6nyHJR4gFDpE4KgCJBRrEA= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:92613 Archived-At: > (read-char-exclusive) Hmm... now that's a rarely used function. Makes me wonder what you use it for. > Any ideas, leads, or help much appreciated. Running EMACS 23.3 on > Linux Mint 13. It sounds like a bug we may have fixed in the many years that passed since 23.3 was released. Stefan