From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Samuel Bronson <naesten@gmail.com>
Cc: 17836@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17836: 24.3; `describe-fontset' confused about e.g. ?\C-@
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 16:36:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mtpc6v4i.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pni8apgg.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sun, 03 Nov 2019 17:34:39 +0100")
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> Anyway, it seems like this bug is still present in Emacs 27, and there's
> possibly a new bug, too, with not displaying the hex values in some
> instances.
No, I think that's apparently OK...
> Eli did pinpoint what the reason for the original bug was, though:
>
>> That's because print-fontset-element does this:
>>
>> (beginning-of-line)
>> (let ((from (following-char))
>>
>> IOW, it assumes that there's a single character there, not a
>> human-readable description of a character, such as "C-@".
>>
>> How about submitting a patch that uses 'kbd', say?
>
> I'll take a whack at implementing that.
Now pushed to Emacs 28.
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-23 1:57 bug#17836: 24.3; `describe-fontset' confused about e.g. ?\C-@ Samuel Bronson
2014-06-23 16:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-23 16:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-03 16:34 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-08-20 14:36 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
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