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: Is it legal to set `help-char' to nil? Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 12:54:11 -0400 Message-ID: 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 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1365785676 13202 80.91.229.3 (12 Apr 2013 16:54:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 16:54:36 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 12 18:54:40 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 1UQhFH-0006YR-Fw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Apr 2013 18:54:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38258 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UQhFH-0007w2-6e for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Apr 2013 12:54:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:50963) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UQhF5-0007vj-2r for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Apr 2013 12:54:28 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UQhF2-0007BW-T5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Apr 2013 12:54:27 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:39198) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UQhF2-0007BA-MN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Apr 2013 12:54:24 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UQhEy-00062n-2u for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Apr 2013 18:54:20 +0200 Original-Received: from 69-196-129-29.dsl.teksavvy.com ([69.196.129.29]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 12 Apr 2013 18:54:20 +0200 Original-Received: from monnier by 69-196-129-29.dsl.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 12 Apr 2013 18:54:20 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 10 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 69-196-129-29.dsl.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:OndwZgmIwvzeuL+V1K4pakF/pMw= 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:90126 Archived-At: >> 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