bug#25641: 25.1; insert-char function inconsistency

["Pablo Mercader Alcántara" <programingfrik@gmail.com>]

oooh cool!

thanks again!

2017-02-08 17:43 GMT-04:00 Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>:
> On Wed, 08 Feb 2017 19:54:12 +0200 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>>> From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
>>> Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2017 14:15:00 +0100
>>> Cc: 25641@debbugs.gnu.org
>>>
>>> I agree.  The following patch does that (the special-casing here has a
>>> precedent in ucs-names in mule-cmds.el, from which the comment is
>>> copied):
>>>
>>> diff --git a/lisp/descr-text.el b/lisp/descr-text.el
>>> index 3971dbb..a1efb67 100644
>>> --- a/lisp/descr-text.el
>>> +++ b/lisp/descr-text.el
>>> @@ -617,7 +617,14 @@ describe-char
>>>                               "input method")
>>>                       (list
>>>                            (let ((name
>>> -                                 (or (get-char-code-property char 'name)
>>> +                                 (or (when (= char 7)
>>> +                                   ;; Special case for "BELL" which is
>>> +                                   ;; apparently the only char which
>>> +                                   ;; doesn't have a new name and whose
>>> +                                   ;; old-name is shadowed by a newer char
>>> +                                   ;; with that name.
>>> +                                   (car (rassoc char ucs-names)))
>>> +                                 (get-char-code-property char 'name)
>>>                                       (get-char-code-property char 'old-name))))
>>>                              (if (and name (assoc-string name (ucs-names)))
>>>                                  (format
>>>
>>> Eli, what do you say?
>>
>> I don't mind, but ucs-names might be nil if the function by the same
>> name was not yet called, so I think we should call it first.
>
> Oh yes, I should have noticed that.
>
>> Also, I think it would be good to mention this bug report in the
>> comment.
>
> Done and pushed to master as 90f76eb.
>
> Steve Berman