GNU bug report logs - #30942
[PATCH] Add `key-description' as inverse of `kbd'.

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Hong Xu <hong <at> topbug.net>

Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2018 22:22:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: fixed, patch

Fixed in version 26.1

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

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From: Hong Xu <hong <at> topbug.net>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: [PATCH] Add `key-description' as inverse of `kbd'.
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2018 14:35:51 -0700

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]
2018-03-25  Hong Xu  <hong <at> topbug.net>

	* lisp/subr.el (kbd): Add `key-description' as inverse of
          `kbd' in the doc.
---
 lisp/subr.el | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lisp/subr.el b/lisp/subr.el
index 2de5b3766c2f..f8ac70edefae 100644
--- a/lisp/subr.el
+++ b/lisp/subr.el
@@ -774,7 +774,9 @@ kbd
 KEYS should be a string in the format returned by commands such
 as `C-h k' (`describe-key').
 This is the same format used for saving keyboard macros (see
-`edmacro-mode')."
+`edmacro-mode').
+
+For an approximate inverse of this, see `key-description'."
   ;; Don't use a defalias, since the `pure' property is only true for
   ;; the calling convention of `kbd'.
   (read-kbd-macro keys))
-- 
2.11.0


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bug#30942; Package emacs. (Sat, 31 Mar 2018 05:03:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

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From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
To: Hong Xu <hong <at> topbug.net>
Cc: 30942 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#30942: [PATCH] Add `key-description' as inverse of `kbd'.
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2018 01:02:18 -0400

tags 30942 fixed
close 30942 26.1
quit

> 2018-03-25  Hong Xu  <hong <at> topbug.net>
>
> 	* lisp/subr.el (kbd): Add `key-description' as inverse of
>           `kbd' in the doc.

> --- a/lisp/subr.el
> +++ b/lisp/subr.el
> @@ -774,7 +774,9 @@ kbd
> +For an approximate inverse of this, see `key-description'."

Pushed to emacs-26.

[1: 3bc1e2f0ac]: 2018-03-31 00:50:37 -0400
  Mention `key-description' as inverse of `kbd' (Bug#30942)
  https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=3bc1e2f0ac63fc4da6a67a619a333aa6e4529bf4
Added tag(s) fixed. Request was from Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com> to control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Sat, 31 Mar 2018 05:03:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
bug marked as fixed in version 26.1, send any further explanations to 30942 <at> debbugs.gnu.org and Hong Xu <hong <at> topbug.net> Request was from Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com> to control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Sat, 31 Mar 2018 05:03:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
bug archived. Request was from Debbugs Internal Request <help-debbugs <at> gnu.org> to internal_control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Sat, 28 Apr 2018 11:24:04 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
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