From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: markkarpov@openmailbox.org, 23204@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23204: 25.1.50; Strange behaviour of ‘read-char’
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2016 20:11:22 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8337oigwn9.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM-tV-8KUmQMv2JZWnaxFY2zzyTUXQnHbVoTstAusXycCH9W8A@mail.gmail.com> (message from Noam Postavsky on Sun, 12 Jun 2016 13:02:30 -0400)
> From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2016 13:02:30 -0400
> Cc: Mark Karpov <markkarpov@openmailbox.org>
>
> I also don't quite understand why this happens, but it seems that
> using (message nil) to clear the minibuffer also works:
>
> (defun my-command ()
> (interactive)
> (message nil)
> (while (read-char "My prompt…" t)))
>
> (global-set-key (kbd "<f12> t y") #'my-command)
>
> (I can't bind <menu> t y in emacs -Q, I get an error message telling
> me <menu> is not a prefix key)
I think the problem is specifically with invoking such commands via
menus, and the reason is that menu handling is inside the toolkit, out
of Emacs control.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-12 17:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-03 10:32 bug#23204: 25.1.50; Strange behaviour of ‘read-char’ Mark Karpov
2016-04-03 14:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-03 16:33 ` Mark Karpov
2016-06-12 17:02 ` Noam Postavsky
2016-06-12 17:11 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-06-12 17:13 ` Noam Postavsky
2016-06-12 17:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-06-12 17:23 ` Noam Postavsky
2016-06-12 17:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-03 20:47 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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