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From: "B. T. Raven" <nihil@nihilo.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: a hyper keybinding for unicode gave a strange kbd macro error
Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2009 12:02:26 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <FOednR88FKmb2bDXnZ2dnUVZ_j2dnZ2d@sysmatrix.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f8715b39-ba55-4922-bba4-606a16b34b6b@h28g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>

Xah Lee wrote:
> i have this defined in my emacs:
> 
> (global-set-key (kbd "H-*") "°")
> 
> which inserts a degree character when Hyper + Shift  + 8 is pressed.
> 
> works fine in OS X, but on Windows Vista + emacsW32, it gives this
> error:
> “After 0 kbd macro iterations: Keyboard macro terminated by a command
> ringing the bell”
> 
> any idea?
> 
> GNU Emacs 23.0.94.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.0.6001) of 2009-05-28 on
> LENNART-69DE564 (patched)
> 
> Thanks.
> 
>   Xah
> ∑ http://xahlee.org/

Works ok here (win2000 and Emacs w32 22.3) Not Lennart's patch though.

Ascii control character 7 not 8 is BEL so I suppose the macro issues a 
^G. I have no idea why Emacs 23 or Vista would act differently in this 
context.

Ed


  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-08 17:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-08 14:34 a hyper keybinding for unicode gave a strange kbd macro error Xah Lee
2009-06-08 17:02 ` B. T. Raven [this message]
2009-06-08 22:53 ` Lennart Borgman

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