From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: jorge+list@disroot.org (Jorge P. de Morais Neto) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#39254: 26.3 and 27.0.50; The manual is inconsistent about the modifier and C-x 8 Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 10:42:59 -0300 Message-ID: <87lfpyqof0.fsf@disroot.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="9067"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: 39254@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 23 16:10:41 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1iue81-0002KA-EJ for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 23 Jan 2020 16:10:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58880 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iue7z-00059R-V6 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; 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The manual section [[info:emacs#Modifier Keys]] says "the standard key bindings in Emacs do not include any characters with these modifiers" (referring to , and ). However, [[info:emacs#Inserting Text]] says "a working Alt key acts like `C-x 8'". Also, the wording in the latter manual section makes it seem that any key sequence starting with the `C-x 8' prefix works with , but, according to my testing (with C-x @ a), that does not hold for `C-x 8 RET'. This occurs on Emacs 26.3 and 27.0.50, both installed via an updated Guix on Debian buster. Regards -- - - I am Brazilian. I hope my English is correct and I welcome feedback. - Please adopt free formats like PDF, ODF, Org, LaTeX, Opus, WebM and 7z. - Free/libre software for Replicant, LineageOS and Android: https://f-droid.org - [[https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html][What is free software?]]