GNU bug report logs - #1319
Change in where-is-internal causing describe-key problems

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Geoff Gole" <geoffgole <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2008 03:30:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: "Geoff Gole" <geoffgole <at> gmail.com>
To: emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#1319: Change in where-is-internal causing describe-key problems
Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2008 19:19:57 -0800

The behaviour of where-is-internal has changed in CVS emacs. Enter
view mode, M-: (where-is-internal 'self-insert-command nil nil nil) :

  22.2  => ([491520] [458752] [442368] [425984] [409600]...)
  CVS   => ([(128 . 4194303)])

This change breaks describe-function-1, used internally in
describe-key, causing a bound key to be printed as a non-ascii
character in some conditions. To reproduce the problem:

  emacs -Q
  C-h k k
  Switch to the *Help* buffer
  C-h k k

where-is-internal seems to be buggy, but perhaps describe-function-1
should also be doing more checking. I'm not sure if it should handle
input of the form ([(128 . 4194303)]) or not.
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