Subject: Re: bug#25612: 26.0.50; Slightly suboptimal message for disabled commands

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2017 17:10:18 +0200

> From: Philipp Stephani <[email-masked]>
> Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2017 14:15:30 +0000
> Cc: [email-masked]
> 
>  Perhaps the message should avoid showing the key sequence at all?
> 
> It seems that this is the intention of lines 54 through 62 in novice.el, but it doesn't seem to work any more.

Indeed.

> This is a regression: it still works as expected in Emacs 23.4, but no longer in Emacs 24.3. Probably
> something about this-command-keys or command-execute changed in the meantime so that the code in
> novice.el no longer works as expected.

Yes, this-command-keys returns just "^M" instead of the expected
"\370erase-buffer^M" it returned in Emacs 24.2 and older.