From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: xah lee <xah@xahlee.org>, 1525@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#1525: prompt string for execute-extended-command not flexible
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:20:35 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87aackb2ws.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3ei1yff94.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sun, 10 Jul 2011 15:15:51 +0200")
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> (local-set-key [(meta z)] 'execute-extended-command)
>
> Then you still get "M-x" as the prompt if you do `M-z'.
>
> The reason is that it looks up the command first, and then picks one of
> the bindings as the description, with code that's kinda like this:
>
> (key-description (car (where-is-internal 'execute-extended-command)))
>
> Is there any reason it doesn't just use this_command_keys which
> presumably would be more correct?
OTOH, you might get into a tricky situation if execute-extended-command
was launched by, say, a mouse event.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-12 3:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-09 22:36 bug#1525: prompt string for execute-extended-command not flexible xah lee
2011-07-10 13:15 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-12 3:20 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2011-07-12 3:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-07-12 8:51 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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