Re: read-char doesn't use input-decode-map

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>]

> Wow, read-key is pretty wild. I didn't realize you could do that
> with idle timers.  Perhaps that's vanilla if you're used to
> emacs' event handling :)

It's definitely not vanilla: it took me a while to find something that
worked OK, and even the current solution is pretty hackish since it
relies on time to detect "key press boundaries", which is fundamentally
unreliable.  Sadly, I think there is fundamentally no reliable way to
solve this problem, so it's probably about as good as it gets.

> This apparently means that code like I attached has no way to
> reliably translate all of a certain key into another key, at
> least for existing code that uses read-char.  For example,
> y-or-n-p.

Using read-char makes it pretty much hopeless, yes.
Most uses of reac-char should be replaced by read-key instead.


        Stefan