From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: 835@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#835: 23.0.60; Quick calc is quietly disabled in view-mode
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:00:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48BC65E3.5010709@gmx.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y72bilh9.fsf@cyd.mit.edu>
> Yeah, it's somewhat opaque code. The way the ASCII table is set up is
> that character 1 is the character ^A, character 2 is the character ^B,
> and so forth, until character 65 is the unmodified character A. Hence
> (char-to-string (- ?n ?a -1)) gives 14 == ^N. (Also, ASCII control
> characters are case insensitive: there's no separate ^n character.)
This makes sense iff the designer wanted to correct an accidentally held
down control key behavior (the code obviously never lived up to that due
to the regexp bug).
> I suppose this means we have to find a separate fix for the original
> bug...
... well, nothing hinders us assigning n, C-n and N to the same key.
But I'd like to hear Jay's comments first.
martin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-01 22:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-01 18:53 bug#835: 23.0.60; Quick calc is quietly disabled in view-mode Chong Yidong
2008-09-01 21:08 ` martin rudalics
2008-09-01 21:50 ` Chong Yidong
2008-09-01 22:00 ` martin rudalics [this message]
2008-09-02 2:33 ` Jay Belanger
2008-09-02 9:02 ` martin rudalics
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2008-08-31 9:08 Markus Triska
2008-08-31 10:48 ` martin rudalics
2008-09-01 17:47 ` martin rudalics
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