From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bob Newell Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Vexing problem with read-char-exclusive (ELISP) Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2013 17:40:30 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <2ab66d14-68ef-4f7e-b1ac-e82e4e1df9cc@googlegroups.com> References: <8828cd07-bee6-4f5e-9c90-930f41e06f70@googlegroups.com> <87li4lwwxs.fsf@rosalinde.fritz.box> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1375404319 6220 80.91.229.3 (2 Aug 2013 00:45:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2013 00:45:19 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 02 02:45:22 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 1V53Ue-0003tt-5F for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Aug 2013 02:45:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55448 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V53Ud-00029s-Mi for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Aug 2013 20:45:19 -0400 X-Received: by 10.224.163.14 with SMTP id y14mr6892798qax.3.1375404030560; Thu, 01 Aug 2013 17:40:30 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.50.107.10 with SMTP id gy10mr10179igb.7.1375404030520; Thu, 01 Aug 2013 17:40:30 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fx3no538954qab.0!news-out.google.com!he10ni68qab.0!nntp.google.com!fx3no538951qab.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=67.53.218.178; posting-account=DJm3bwoAAACRU7Y-Jscf90IndpvcTwsh Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.53.218.178 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 00:40:30 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:200383 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:92650 Archived-At: On Thursday, August 1, 2013 5:03:28 AM UTC-10, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > I see it with -Q in the current trunk (that is, I see the input echoed Hmm. Then I won't push forward to 24.x quite yet :) =20 > Hmm... indeed... and I see now also that it's almost "by design". I can understand that actually being a design choice for some circumstances= , however, I think in other circumstances there should be a way to defeat t= his behavior. (Of course my workaround with a " " prompt seems to do that.) I'm using read-char-exclusive (to answer an earlier question in this thread= ) so I can input chars one by one and ignore mouse events. This is part of = a typewriter simulator that I posted about on gnu.emacs.sources; it's a rel= atively useless but somewhat entertaining little piece of code. But what I think I've heard here is that maybe I should stay with my slight= ly odd but functional workaround for now.