a hyper keybinding for unicode gave a strange kbd macro error

a hyper keybinding for unicode gave a strange kbd macro error

[Xah Lee]

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
\xAD\xF4 http://xahlee.org/

Re: a hyper keybinding for unicode gave a strange kbd macro error

[B. T. Raven]

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

Re: a hyper keybinding for unicode gave a strange kbd macro error

[Lennart Borgman]

2009/6/8 Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com>:
> 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)

This is an unknown territory for me. Could be a bug in Emacs+EmacsW32.
Please try the unpatched version and see if it works there.