From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Will default key bindings spell the death of Emacs? Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 10:26:40 -0600 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3EDCCC40.9060504@yahoo.com> References: <3ED67422.7060305@math.ku.dk> <20030529214728.GA24984@gnu.org> <200305300010.h4U0AiNY018227@rum.cs.yale.edu> <84r86hggd8.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <3ED79506.5050604@yahoo.com><3EDBC154.40009@yahoo.com> <200306022242.h52MghO24343@eel.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1054659693 24808 80.91.224.249 (3 Jun 2003 17:01:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 17:01:33 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 03 19:01:25 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19NFA5-0006RL-00 for ; Tue, 03 Jun 2003 19:01:25 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19NFRG-0007Yd-00 for ; Tue, 03 Jun 2003 19:19:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19NF6Y-0003me-IN for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 03 Jun 2003 12:57:46 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19NEkH-0005Ti-OL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jun 2003 12:34:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19NEj1-00050Z-DG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jun 2003 12:33:33 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19NEj0-0004zn-Gj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jun 2003 12:33:26 -0400 Original-Received: from root by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19NEfp-0003my-00 for ; Tue, 03 Jun 2003 18:30:09 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19NEa8-0003Mh-00 for ; Tue, 03 Jun 2003 18:24:16 +0200 Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:14642 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:14642 Luc Teirlinck wrote: > Kevin Rodgers wrote: > How about: > > (kbd (read-string "Key (`kbd' format): ")) > > That seems to require the following patch; is this a known bug in `kbd'? > > No, as David already pointed out. However, you could just as well use > read-kbd-macro directly (unless I am confused about something). Doh! Thanks, -- Kevin Rodgers