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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
Cc: Emacs Development <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Is `kbd' idempotent?
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2015 16:39:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bnabv6m6.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a8pvqzij.fsf@web.de> (Michael Heerdegen's message of "Mon, 30 Nov 2015 16:26:44 +0100")

Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:

> Hello,
>
> is `kbd' idempotent?
>
> I want to prompt the user for a key sequence in any common format.  If
> he enters a string and already uses the format that `kbd' outputs, can
> it be bad to call `kbd' on the input?

Uh, how is somebody going to input the format that `kbd' outputs?  The
input is a string, the output often a vector.

And no, kbd does not accept such vectors as input.

-- 
David Kastrup



  reply	other threads:[~2015-11-30 15:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-30 15:26 Is `kbd' idempotent? Michael Heerdegen
2015-11-30 15:39 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2015-11-30 16:01   ` Michael Heerdegen
2015-11-30 16:24     ` Random832
2015-12-01 14:25       ` Michael Heerdegen
2015-12-01 15:37         ` Random832
2015-12-01 18:32           ` Michael Heerdegen
2015-12-02 18:33           ` Michael Heerdegen
2015-11-30 16:24     ` Andreas Schwab
2015-11-30 16:30 ` Random832

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