From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Leo Liu <sdl.web@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Hanchrow <eric.hanchrow@gmail.com>, 17659@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17659: 24.3.90; C-x 8 ? displays help instead of inserting INVERTED QUESTION MARK
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 23:33:11 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvoaxp1t9c.fsf-monnier+bug#17659@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3sinna2jr.fsf@gmail.com> (Leo Liu's message of "Mon, 02 Jun 2014 21:01:12 +0800")
>> The subject says it all: when I type C-x 8 ?, I expect emacs to insert
>> into the buffer Unicode 191, INVERTED QUESTION MARK. However, instead
>> it displays a *Help* buffer whose first line reads
>> Key translations Starting With C-x 8:
> ? is bound in iso-transl-ctl-x-8-map but oddly the ? (help-char) takes
> precedence. Stefan, any idea where to look to fix it?
BTW, maybe it was obvious to someone, but it wasn't to me, so I'll
mention that this is a regression w.r.t 24.3 and it is caused by the
change documented in NEWS:
*** The key `?' now describes prefix bindings, like `C-h'.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-19 3:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-01 4:00 bug#17659: 24.3.90; C-x 8 ? displays help instead of inserting INVERTED QUESTION MARK Eric Hanchrow
2014-06-02 13:01 ` Leo Liu
2014-06-03 1:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-06-03 2:58 ` Leo Liu
2014-06-04 0:02 ` Leo Liu
2014-06-04 12:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-06-19 3:33 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2014-06-19 4:23 ` Leo Liu
2014-06-19 13:32 ` Drew Adams
2014-06-19 3:52 ` Stefan Monnier
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