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this-command-keys no longer returns prefix argument

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Message #106 received at 22107 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: bruce.connor.am <at> gmail.com
Cc: jwiegley <at> gmail.com, 22107 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca,
 rgm <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22107: 25.1; Wrong docstring for this-single-command-keys
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2015 17:37:38 +0200

> Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2015 10:12:13 +0000
> From: Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am <at> gmail.com>
> Cc: John Wiegley <jwiegley <at> gmail.com>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>, 
> 	22107 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> 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).

Do you have a suggestion for how to fix this-command-keys?  AFAIU, the
last part of this discussion was trying to find a way of doing that.

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