GNU bug report logs - #16677
24.3.50; Wrong type argument: char-or-string-p, 67108923

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#16677: closed (24.3.50; Wrong type argument: char-or-string-p,
 67108923)
Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2014 11:16:02 +0000

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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.3.50; Wrong type argument: char-or-string-p, 67108923
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 18:57:20 -0800 (PST)

emacs -Q

C-q C-;

Gives the cited error message.  It should give a more user
interface-level error, saying something to the effect that the key
sequence you used does not correspond to a character.

Note: in Emacs 20, this just inserts the escape character (^[), which is
wrong.  In Emacs 22, it just inserts the semicolon character (;), which
is also wrong.

Emacs 23 got it right, but it did not make the extra effort to give the
user an error message that s?he deserves: something more helpful than a
low-level barf message (even if that message might be comprehensible to
a knowledgable Emacs user).

Emacs can do better than that - this is, after all, a command, i.e.,
something that users use directly.

(I discovered this by accident, when my fingers slipped.)

In GNU Emacs 24.3.50.1 (i686-pc-mingw32)
 of 2014-02-02 on ODIEONE
Bzr revision: 116242 rudalics <at> gmx.at-20140202130041-n967dw77nw7ztvy9
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601
Configured using:
 `configure --prefix=/c/Devel/emacs/binary --enable-checking=yes,glyphs
 'CFLAGS=-O0 -g3' LDFLAGS=-Lc:/Devel/emacs/lib
 CPPFLAGS=-Ic:/Devel/emacs/include'

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From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 16677-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Subject: Re: bug#16677: 24.3.50;
 Wrong type argument: char-or-string-p, 67108923
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 12:15:04 +0100

Committed (using key-description instead of help-key-description).

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