GNU bug report logs - #22107
this-command-keys no longer returns prefix argument

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: bruce.connor.am <at> gmail.com

Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2015 15:43:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

Merged with 22111

Found in versions 25.0.50, 25.1

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #103 received at 22107 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am <at> gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: John Wiegley <jwiegley <at> gmail.com>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,
 22107 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#22107: 25.1; Wrong docstring for this-single-command-keys
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2015 10:12:13 +0000

2015-12-13 4:16 GMT+00:00 Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>:
>> Stefan, can you summarize an argument for why it should change in 25.1?
>
> Because it's better to get rid of all the C-u special case handling and
> make C-u be a normal command so that GNU ELPA packages can implement
> their own form of prefix command.

I think we should do this. If we are worried about changing the
behavior of this-command-keys during feature-freeze, we can modify
this function to keep the old behaviour under the new framework (at
least for the next release).
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