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

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 22107 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22107: 25.1; Wrong docstring for this-single-command-keys
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2015 09:44:14 -0500

>> Indeed, C-u is now a completely normal command so there's no special
>> handling of "prefix commands" for this-command-keys.
>> Could you tel us where that caused a problem for you?
> I wrote a package for use in screencasts, which displays the key for
> some commands when you invoke them.  And I wanted it to show prefix
> args too.

Could you give some details?  More specifically, doesn't the screen-cast
already give you the C-u when the prefix command itself is run?

> That said, this doesn't actually affect me right now.  Since I didn't
> know this was a bug,

I consider it a feature at least as much as a bug ;-)


        Stefan
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