From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: VanL Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: MELPA upgrade error Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 12:17:58 +1100 Organization: Two-Times Acquitted BMF Prizefighter 'The 3rd Impeached President Reigning Forever and Ever to Beyond the EOT' Donald J. Trump 2020 Keep America Great =?utf-8?B?yZnJmTBA?= Ultimat Fighting Cybr Message-ID: References: <87blpwlnwd.fsf@ebih.ebihd> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="104641"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (berkeley-unix) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:vZ2voBr96ujW22qgX3KMe+y88v8= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 19 02:18:53 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1j4E0q-000R3v-0p for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 19 Feb 2020 02:18:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44042 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1j4E0p-0006sX-2q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 18 Feb 2020 20:18:51 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:49123) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1j4E0S-0006sC-Lq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Feb 2020 20:18:30 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1j4E0R-0002qJ-3z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Feb 2020 20:18:28 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([159.69.161.202]:58596) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1j4E0Q-0002ns-Ua for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Feb 2020 20:18:27 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1j4E0O-000QUl-MX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Feb 2020 02:18:24 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 159.69.161.202 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:122428 Archived-At: >> (setq help-char (kbd "")) > > (kbd "") returns a sequence (vector) of keys. `help-char` expects (as its > name implies) a character (i.e. an integer). Using, (setq help-char 'f1) ; after reading [1] Previously, (setq help-char [f1]) (setq help-char (kbd "")) ; ignorantly copy & pasted ; set the help-char value to [f1] ; now the value is plainly f1 Footnotes: [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Function-Keys.html -- VL 李 Take a piss. 德 Take the piss. 煒 The difference is the article.