Subject: bug#10191: dired-query (in dired-aux.el) fails for certain help-char's, Emacs 23 and 24

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:37:59 +0100

Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]> writes:

>> ; original
>> (if help-form
>>     (format " [Type yn!q or %s] "
>>             (key-description
>>              (char-to-string help-char)))
>>   " [Type y, n, q or !] ")
>
>> When (characterp help-char) is nil, as in my case, char-to-string raises an
>> error.
>
> Thanks.  I've installed the patch below which should fix your problem,

If we want to support keys as values of help-char that should probably
be documented.

Andreas.

-- 
Andreas Schwab, [email-masked]
GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756  01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5
"And now for something completely different."