Package: emacs;
Reported by: Emanuel Berg <embe8573 <at> student.uu.se>
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 22:51:02 UTC
Severity: minor
Found in version 24.3
Done: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
Message #5 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
From: Emanuel Berg <embe8573 <at> student.uu.se> To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org Subject: 24.3; error message on [M-RET] not to [?\M-\r] but to "\M-\r" Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 00:23:44 +0200
From a post on gnu.emacs.help: ... another thing, when you do (global-set-key [M-RET] 'find-file-at-line) it says (error "To bind the key M-RET, use \"\\M-\\r\", not [M-RET]") - that should indicate "\M-\r", right? So why does the [...] syntax recommend the "..." syntax, if the "..." is the one outdated/incomplete and [...] the one modern/universal? - and I was told it is a bug. It makes sense it is a bug, because it doesn't make any sense, *if* indeed the "..." is considered legacy (which I haven't done anything to verify, but I believed him). In GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.8.6) of 2013-12-22 on brahms, modified by Debian System Description: Debian GNU/Linux 7.5 (wheezy) Configured using: `configure '--build' 'x86_64-linux-gnu' '--build' 'x86_64-linux-gnu' '--prefix=/usr' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib' '--localstatedir=/var/lib' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-pop=yes' '--enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs24:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/24.3/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/24.3/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp' '--with-crt-dir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu' '--with-x=yes' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk3' '--with-toolkit-scroll-bars' 'build_alias=x86_64-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-g -O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wall' 'LDFLAGS=-Wl,-z,relro' 'CPPFLAGS=-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2'' Important settings: value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix default enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: Message Minor modes in effect: gnus-message-citation-mode: t show-paren-mode: t shell-dirtrack-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-fill-function: message-do-auto-fill transient-mark-mode: t abbrev-mode: t Recent input: C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p 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-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-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-p RET ESC o ESC p C-n C-n TAB RET TAB RET ဃ i ဃ ESC o ESC o ESC x s e e DEL n t m a i l RET ESC o ESC o ESC p i RET C-x k RET n ESC 0 m ESC 0 ခ m ESC 0 ခ n m DEL DEL Đ Đ Đ Đ Đ Đ Đ Đ 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-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-a C-@ 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-p C-p C-e ESC w ESC x r e p o r t - b u g RET Recent messages: Processing kill file /home/incal/News/KILL...done No more unseen articles No more unread articles Mark set byte-code: Beginning of buffer [13 times] widget-move: No buttons or fields found Follow the link Directory has changed on disk; type g to update Dired Undo! 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