From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#4897: 23.1.50; Info-index and ? in minibuffer Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 10:17:45 +0200 Message-ID: <83eeyqk7yu.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87sgn6hmto.fsf@marxist.se> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="262838"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: eller.helmut@gmail.com, 4897@debbugs.gnu.org To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 02 09:18:13 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iQobs-0016FN-As for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Nov 2019 09:18:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45638 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iQobr-0005zm-40 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Nov 2019 04:18:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:52069) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iQobj-0005ze-On for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Nov 2019 04:18:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iQobi-0000qS-Q9 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Nov 2019 04:18:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:49230) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iQobi-0000p0-Lu for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Nov 2019 04:18:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iQobh-0001c0-M6 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Nov 2019 04:18:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 08:18:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 4897 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 4897-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B4897.15726826696174 (code B ref 4897); Sat, 02 Nov 2019 08:18:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 4897) by debbugs.gnu.org; 2 Nov 2019 08:17:49 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58051 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iQobU-0001bV-Sd for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 02 Nov 2019 04:17:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:42938) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iQobT-0001bD-Bc for 4897@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 02 Nov 2019 04:17:47 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:50460) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iQobN-000894-Uk; Sat, 02 Nov 2019 04:17:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4163 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1iQobM-0005Xx-Sj; Sat, 02 Nov 2019 04:17:41 -0400 In-reply-to: <87sgn6hmto.fsf@marxist.se> (message from Stefan Kangas on Sat, 02 Nov 2019 06:25:07 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:170767 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Kangas > Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 06:25:07 +0100 > Cc: Helmut Eller , 4897@debbugs.gnu.org > > >> The key binding for ? in the minibuffer can be very annoying for the > >> Info-index command. > > > > It behaves the same way as in the stand-alone info reader. > > You can use `C-q ?' for a literal '?'. > > IMO, it would be better to remove the "?" binding. One could use > the more natural "TAB" binding instead. > > However, given that this is very long-standing behaviour, can we > really change it now? Any opinions? It is very unusual for an index entry to include the question mark, so I think the case for the change is quite weak.