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

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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: Christopher Genovese <genovese.cr <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 10191 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#10191: dired-query (in dired-aux.el) fails for certain
	help-char's, Emacs 23 and 24
Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2011 09:36:26 +0100

Christopher Genovese <genovese.cr <at> gmail.com> writes:

> For example, I set my help-char to ?\M-\C-h, which works fine in general.
> But despite looking like a character, ?\M-\C-h does not satisfy
> #'characterp, which causes
> the problem. Technically perhaps, help-char should be a character but from
> the user's point
> of view, both of these should qualify.

?\M-\C-h isn't a character, it is a character with modifiers, and as
such does not qualify.  A character is something which can be inserted
in a buffer or string as-is, for example.

Andreas.

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