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#37769: global-set-key wrongly downcases the typed key (e.g. S-tab). Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2019 12:36:07 +0300 Message-ID: <83o8yd6prs.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20191015190726.GA6315@ACM> <87tv88kres.fsf@gnus.org> <20191017155844.GA4718@ACM> <87k192lpfz.fsf@gnus.org> <83tv868r47.fsf@gnu.org> <87v9sli2ns.fsf@gnus.org> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="245066"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: acm@muc.de, 37769@debbugs.gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 19 11:37:11 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 1iLlAc-0011dM-7J for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Oct 2019 11:37:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51900 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iLlAb-0006fg-4x for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Oct 2019 05:37:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:45951) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iLlAV-0006fX-MO for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Oct 2019 05:37:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iLlAT-0007U1-RR for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Oct 2019 05:37:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:43168) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iLlAT-0007Tp-OM for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Oct 2019 05:37:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iLlAT-0002I5-JR for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Oct 2019 05:37:01 -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, 19 Oct 2019 09:37:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 37769 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 37769-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B37769.15714777888760 (code B ref 37769); Sat, 19 Oct 2019 09:37:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 37769) by debbugs.gnu.org; 19 Oct 2019 09:36:28 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51989 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iLl9w-0002HE-8r for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 19 Oct 2019 05:36:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:36851) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iLl9t-0002H0-EN for 37769@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 19 Oct 2019 05:36:26 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:33920) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iLl9n-00073i-P9; Sat, 19 Oct 2019 05:36:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4408 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1iLl9m-0005rs-VH; Sat, 19 Oct 2019 05:36:19 -0400 In-reply-to: <87v9sli2ns.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Sat, 19 Oct 2019 10:02:15 +0200) 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:169726 Archived-At: > From: Lars Ingebrigtsen > Cc: acm@muc.de, 37769@debbugs.gnu.org > Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2019 10:02:15 +0200 > > The complaint is that the interactive spec of global-set-key downcases > whatever the user enters. > > M-x global-set-key RET C-S-o > > will bind C-o, not C-S-o. (Well, the case in question was about TAB, > aka C-i, but...) This is surprising, and should be fixed, I think (and > the patch suggested fixes this). > > I entered the discussion because I thought that this would be a bad > change on ttys, because Emacs would then go ahead and bind the `C-S-o' > key -- which then couldn't be used by the user, because there's no way > to use shifted control keys under a tty. At least I don't think so? > > If this is the case, I think the original patch should be applied, but > if we're running in an environment where `C-S-o' can't be entered (i.e., > not on a gui), then the command should error out or give a warning, at > least. Ah, okay. Yes, I think Alan's change should be installed, but FWIW I don't see a need for any warning (and we will have hard time knowing when to show it, given the different capabilities of different terminal emulators). Thanks.