Subject: Re: bug#17214: 24.3.50; C-q F1 does not display help, inserts null

From: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2017 08:26:11 -0400

found 17214 25.1
tags 17214 fixed
close 17214 25.2
quit

Marcin Borkowski <[email-masked]> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I tried to investigate this, and it seems that read-quoted-char has some
> facilities for intercepting f1 (i.e., all the help- local variables),
> and then does not use them at all.
>
> Strange.
>
> Best,
> Marcin
>
>
> On 2014-04-07, at 06:47, Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> wrote:
>
>> Steps to reproduce:
>>
>>   emacs -Q
>>   C-q F1
>>
>> This momentarily flashes the help text, and inserts a null character.
>> The expected result is that the help text is displayed, and Emacs
>> waits for another keystroke and inserts that.

This seems to have been fixed in 25.2.