Package: emacs;
Reported by: Magnar Sveen <magnars <at> gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 18:44:02 UTC
Severity: minor
Found in version 24.2
Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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From: Magnar Sveen <magnars <at> gmail.com> To: 13599 <at> debbugs.gnu.org Subject: bug#13599: 24.2; (max-char) is too low (and hard to change) Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 19:42:27 +0100
Due to my weird norwegian keyboard, I'm trying to map my s-8 to [. Doing a M-: (read-char) s-8 gives me the key value of 8388664. Following that up with (keyboard-translate 8388664 ?\[) does not work, since it fails the (characterp) test. Turns out that (max-char) is a C function that returns the highest allowed keycode. On my Emacs, that is 4194303. Since (max-char) is a function and not a variable, and a C function at that (not advisable when called from another C function (characterp)) - I am left without options to rectify it. Or maybe I could use a hex editor. :-) So, is this a bug? Is it weird that max-char is a function? In C? Ought 4194303 chars be enough for anybody? That's up to you guys to decide. Kind regards, Magnar Sveen In GNU Emacs 24.2.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0, NS apple-appkit-1038.36) of 2012-09-04 on fi-bp-202.local Windowing system distributor `Apple', version 10.3.1038 Configured using: `configure '--prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/emacs/24.2' '--without-dbus' '--enable-locallisppath=/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp' '--infodir=/usr/local/Cellar/emacs/24.2/share/info/emacs' '--with-ns' '--disable-ns-self-contained' 'CC=/usr/bin/gcc-4.2' 'CFLAGS=-Os -w -pipe -march=core2 -msse4 -mmacosx-version-min=10.6' 'LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib'' Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: nil value of $LC_COLLATE: nil value of $LC_CTYPE: nil value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil value of $LC_MONETARY: nil value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil value of $LC_TIME: nil value of $LANG: nil value of $XMODIFIERS: nil locale-coding-system: utf-8 default enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: Emacs-Lisp Minor modes in effect: diff-auto-refine-mode: t shell-dirtrack-mode: t elisp-slime-nav-mode: t hardcore-mode: t show-paren-mode: t global-hl-line-mode: t ido-ubiquitous-mode: t eproject-mode: t paredit-mode: t persp-mode: t yas/global-mode: t yas/minor-mode: t global-undo-tree-mode: t undo-tree-mode: t global-subword-mode: t subword-mode: t recentf-mode: t delete-selection-mode: t global-auto-revert-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t column-number-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent input: c s-8 <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> C-y C-x C-e s-8 C-_ C-a M-f - u n C-d C-e C-b C-w C-_ <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> C-e C-x C-e s-8 s-8 C-_ C-_ C-_ C-_ C-_ C-e C-x C-e s-8 C-q s-8 C-_ C-_ M-_ M-_ M-_ M-_ C-d C-d C-d C-b <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-b C-u C-n C-p C-p C-p C-p u n C-e C-x C-e C-a C-k C-b C-x C-e q s-8 s-8 C-q s-8 <f1> f r e a d - c h a r <return> M-: ( r e a d - c h a r ) <return> s-8 <f1> k C-q <S-right> <tab> <return> C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-q s-8 M-: <up> <return> s-8 C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-x b <return> C-x C-e <S-right> q M-: <up> <return> s-8 C-x C-e <S-left> <S-right> <tab> <tab> <return> <S-right> <up> <up> <return> C-n C-n C-n C-n <f1> f c h a r a c t e r p <return> <S-right> M-: ( m a x - x h a r <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> c h a r ) <return> M-: <up> C-g <f1> f m a x - c h a r <return> <S-right> <tab> <return> C-g q <f1> f c h a r a c t e r p <return> <S-right> <tab> C-n C-n C-n C-n C-a M-w <S-tab> <return> C-g q M-x e m a c s - r e b <backspace> p o <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> r e p o r t <r eturn> Recent messages: 4194303 (#o17777777, #x3fffff) Quit windmove-do-window-select: No window right from 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