MELPA upgrade error

MELPA upgrade error

[Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor]

Enter MELPA and

  5 packages can be upgraded; type ‘U’ to mark them for upgrading.

I hit U and

  package-menu--mark-upgrades-1: Wrong type argument: package-desc, nil

?

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Re: MELPA upgrade error

[VanL]

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> I hit U and
>
>   package-menu--mark-upgrades-1: Wrong type argument: package-desc, nil
>
> ?

Some errors I get are as follows. (see attached file for all details)

#+name: with-customization-of-C-h-to-backspace
#+begin_example
  41 matches for "\[f1" in buffer: *Compile-Log*
      325:with-editor.el:99:20:Error: Wrong type argument: characterp, [f1]
      399:git-rebase.el:80:1:Error: Wrong type argument: characterp, [f1]
      402:magit-apply.el:36:1:Error: Wrong type argument: characterp, [f1]
      407:magit-bisect.el:30:1:Error: Wrong type argument: characterp, [f1]
      410:magit-blame.el:34:1:Error: Wrong type argument: characterp, [f1]
      413:magit-bookmark.el:35:1:Error: Wrong type argument: characterp, [f1]
      416:magit-branch.el:37:1:Error: Wrong type argument: characterp, [f1]
      419:magit-clone.el:30:1:Error: Wrong type argument: characterp, [f1]
      422:magit-commit.el:32:1:Error: Wrong type argument: characterp, [f1]
      425:magit-core.el:37:1:Error: Wrong type argument: characterp, [f1]
      428:magit-diff.el:35:1:Error: Wrong type argument: characterp, [f1]
      431:magit-ediff.el:30:1:Error: Wrong type argument: characterp, [f1]
      434:magit-extras.el:30:1:Error: Wrong type argument: characterp, [f1]
      437:magit-fetch.el:30:1:Error: Wrong type argument: characterp, [f1]
      440:magit-files.el:36:1:Error: Wrong type argument: characterp, [f1]
      445:magit-gitignore.el:33:1:Error: Wrong type argument: characterp, [f1]
      448:magit-imenu.el:39:1:Error: Wrong type argument: characterp, [f1]
      451:magit-log.el:32:1:Error: Wrong type argument: characterp, [f1]
      454:magit-margin.el:39:1:Error: Wrong type argument: characterp, [f1]
      457:magit-merge.el:33:1:Error: Wrong type argument: characterp, [f1]
      462:magit-notes.el:30:1:Error: Wrong type argument: characterp, [f1]
      465:magit-obsolete.el:30:1:Error: Wrong type argument: characterp, [f1]
      468:magit-patch.el:33:1:Error: Wrong type argument: characterp, [f1]
      471:magit-process.el:41:1:Error: Wrong type argument: characterp, [f1]
      474:magit-pull.el:30:1:Error: Wrong type argument: characterp, [f1]
      477:magit-push.el:33:1:Error: Wrong type argument: characterp, [f1]
      480:magit-reflog.el:30:1:Error: Wrong type argument: characterp, [f1]
      483:magit-refs.el:33:1:Error: Wrong type argument: characterp, [f1]
      486:magit-remote.el:30:1:Error: Wrong type argument: characterp, [f1]
      489:magit-repos.el:35:1:Error: Wrong type argument: characterp, [f1]
      492:magit-reset.el:30:1:Error: Wrong type argument: characterp, [f1]
      497:magit-sequence.el:35:1:Error: Wrong type argument: characterp, [f1]
      500:magit-stash.el:33:1:Error: Wrong type argument: characterp, [f1]
      503:magit-status.el:33:1:Error: Wrong type argument: characterp, [f1]
      506:magit-submodule.el:29:1:Error: Wrong type argument: characterp, [f1]
      509:magit-subtree.el:26:1:Error: Wrong type argument: characterp, [f1]
      512:magit-tag.el:30:1:Error: Wrong type argument: characterp, [f1]
      515:magit-transient.el:38:1:Error: Wrong type argument: characterp, [f1]
      520:magit-wip.el:36:1:Error: Wrong type argument: characterp, [f1]
      523:magit-worktree.el:30:1:Error: Wrong type argument: characterp, [f1]
      526:magit.el:55:1:Error: Wrong type argument: characterp, [f1]
#+end_example

This is how I try to reclaim C-h for backspace.

#+begin_src emacs-lisp
  (setq help-char (kbd "<f1>"))
  (define-key isearch-mode-map "\C-h" 'isearch-delete-char)

  (defvar 2020-help-bind-mode-map
    (let ((map (make-sparse-keymap)))
      (define-key map [?\C-h] 'delete-backward-char)
      (define-key map [?\M-h] 'backward-kill-word)
      map))

  (define-minor-mode 2020-help-bind-mode
    "Own global key-bindings."
    :global t)

  (2020-help-bind-mode t)
#+end_src

M-x term ;; also produces the message:

  Wrong type argument: characterp, [f1]


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Re: MELPA upgrade error

[Stefan Monnier]

>   (setq help-char (kbd "<f1>"))

(kbd "<f1>") returns a sequence (vector) of keys.  `help-char` expects (as its
name implies) a character (i.e. an integer).


        Stefan

Re: MELPA upgrade error

[VanL]

>>   (setq help-char (kbd "<f1>"))
>
> (kbd "<f1>") returns a sequence (vector) of keys.  `help-char` expects (as its
> name implies) a character (i.e. an integer).

Using,

  (setq help-char 'f1) ; after reading [1]

Previously, 

  (setq help-char [f1])
  (setq help-char (kbd "<f1>")) ; ignorantly copy & pasted
                                ; set the help-char value to [f1]
                                ; now the value is plainly f1

Footnotes: 
[1]  https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Function-Keys.html

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德 Take the piss.
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Re: MELPA upgrade error

[VanL]

>>   (setq help-char (kbd "<f1>"))
>
> (kbd "<f1>") returns a sequence (vector) of keys.  `help-char` expects (as its
> name implies) a character (i.e. an integer).

The trick to obtain the number for the f1 fn-key is

  (setq help-char (string-to-char "<f1>")) ;see [1]

which lets 'M-x term' work, again.


Footnotes: 
[1]  https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13897125/emacs-translating-c-h-to-del-m-h-to-m-del

-- VL

Re: MELPA upgrade error

[Stefan Monnier]

> The trick to obtain the number for the f1 fn-key is

There is no "number" for the `f1` key.


        Stefan

Re: MELPA upgrade error

[Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor]

Stefan Monnier wrote:

>> The trick to obtain the number for the f1
>> fn-key is
>
> There is no "number" for the `f1` key.

As for `help-char', one can test it like this:

    (setq help-char 46) ; was 8 which is C-h
    (setq help-form (message "help-form executed")) ; was nil

and then type a dot (.) - the number for the
dot char is 46, which can be confirmed with
ascii(1).

Type a dot and you'll see "help-form executed"
executed on the screen. But then, of course,
C-h doesn't work anymore. C-h, or ^H, is 8.
Again use ascii,

    $ ascii '^H'

As for [f1], now the functions keys don't work
for me in the Linux VT (well, they could,
I think, with this method [1], but I don't want
them to as to use them would require moving the
hands from the beloved asdf and jkl; positions)
- but for an X instance of Emacs, it should
work inside, outside, and out of the box with
the familiar syntax:

    (global-set-key [f1] #'beginning-of-buffer)


[1] https://dataswamp.org/~incal/tty-emacs-keys.txt

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Re: MELPA upgrade error

[VanL]

>> The trick to obtain the number for the f1 fn-key is
>
> There is no "number" for the `f1` key.

'h used to be 8 counting from 1 for 'a back in the day before numbers
were assigned mnemoniclature. [1]  Which may explain why C-h is 8 there.


Footnotes: 
[1]  Larry Tesler 2014 CMU guest lecture
     https://scs.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=e6adfb43-be90-46b3-9009-23cd98b7a898


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Re: MELPA upgrade error

[Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor]

VanL wrote:

>>> The trick to obtain the number for the f1
>>> fn-key is
>>
>> There is no "number" for the `f1` key.
>
> 'h used to be 8 counting from 1 for 'a back
> in the day before numbers were assigned
> mnemoniclature. [1] Which may explain why C-h
> is 8 there.

Again, ascii(1) is your friend: 

$ ascii {1..8} | grep '\^'
ASCII 0/1 is decimal 001, hex 01, octal 001, bits 00000001: called ^A, SOH
ASCII 0/2 is decimal 002, hex 02, octal 002, bits 00000010: called ^B, STX
ASCII 0/3 is decimal 003, hex 03, octal 003, bits 00000011: called ^C, ETX
ASCII 0/4 is decimal 004, hex 04, octal 004, bits 00000100: called ^D, EOT
ASCII 0/5 is decimal 005, hex 05, octal 005, bits 00000101: called ^E, ENQ
ASCII 0/6 is decimal 006, hex 06, octal 006, bits 00000110: called ^F, ACK
ASCII 0/7 is decimal 007, hex 07, octal 007, bits 00000111: called ^G, BEL
ASCII 0/8 is decimal 008, hex 08, octal 010, bits 00001000: called ^H, BS

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