GNU bug report logs - #22620
24.5; "(global-hi-lock-mode 1)" broke "C-x" key bindings inside "M-x term", especially for "emacs -nw" (Emacs inside Emacs).

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Oleksandr Gavenko <gavenkoa <at> gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 19:52:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: confirmed

Found in versions 24.5, 26.2

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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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 22620 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Oleksandr Gavenko <gavenkoa <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#22620: 24.5; "(global-hi-lock-mode 1)" broke "C-x" key bindings inside "M-x term", especially for "emacs -nw" (Emacs inside Emacs).
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2021 03:25:06 +0200

Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Oleksandr Gavenko <gavenkoa <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>>   (global-hi-lock-mode 1)
>>
>> again broke "C-x" prefix.
>
> Yes, the problem is that hi-lock-mode defines keys using the C-x prefix,
> and it is a minor mode so it overrides term.el's major mode binding of
> C-x to term-send-raw.  It's not immediately clear to me what the correct
> fix is though.
>
> I guess we could add term-mode to hi-lock-exclude-modes?

Yup.  I did that in Emacs 28, and it made the problem go away.

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