From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: VanL Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: MELPA upgrade error Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 22:53:30 +1100 Organization: Two-Times Aquitted BMF Prizefighter 'The 3rd Reigning Impeached President' Donald J. Trump 2020 Keep America Great =?utf-8?B?yZnJmTBA?= Ultimat Fighting Cybr Message-ID: References: <87blpwlnwd.fsf@ebih.ebihd> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="110077"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (darwin) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:LoMhxkJzY9bw+X73joJkuQvAg58= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 20 12:53:56 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1j4kOy-000SUU-Pn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 20 Feb 2020 12:53:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40384 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1j4kOx-0002tJ-T0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 20 Feb 2020 06:53:55 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:44587) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1j4kOg-0002t7-Lr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Feb 2020 06:53:39 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1j4kOf-0006il-Kx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Feb 2020 06:53:38 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([159.69.161.202]:46630) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1j4kOf-0006hX-F6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Feb 2020 06:53:37 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1j4kOd-000S5U-Kk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Feb 2020 12:53:35 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 159.69.161.202 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:122434 Archived-At: >> (setq help-char (kbd "")) > > (kbd "") returns a sequence (vector) of keys. `help-char` expects (as its > name implies) a character (i.e. an integer). The trick to obtain the number for the f1 fn-key is (setq help-char (string-to-char "")) ;see [1] which lets 'M-x term' work, again. Footnotes: [1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13897125/emacs-translating-c-h-to-del-m-h-to-m-del -- VL