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Change in where-is-internal causing describe-key problems

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From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Geoff Gole <geoffgole <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 1319 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#1319: Change in where-is-internal causing describe-key problems
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:40:39 +0100

> I saw that, but I thought it was more likely to be a cheap early
> out than a test that was ever meant to be bulletproof.

Maybe you were right in thinking so, I don't know.

> This code later in the describe-function-1 should handle the case
> where that test fails but there are many keys bound to
> self-insert-command:
>
>   (when keys
>     (princ (if remapped ", which is bound to " "It is bound to "))
>     ;; If lots of ordinary text characters run this command,
>     ;; don't mention them one by one.
>     (if (< (length non-modified-keys) 10)
>         (princ (mapconcat 'key-description keys ", "))
>       (dolist (key non-modified-keys)
>         (setq keys (delq key keys)))
>       (if keys
>           (progn
>             (princ (mapconcat 'key-description keys ", "))
>             (princ ", and many ordinary text characters"))
>         (princ "many ordinary text characters"))))
>
> And indeed in 22.2, it does. But the aforementioned change in
> where-is-internal breaks it.

What precisely was the change in `where-is-internal' that broke it?

martin

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