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[PATCH] Add a way to disable substitution of command keys in help strings

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Clément Pit-Claudel <cpitclaudel <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#37785: closed (Re: bug#37785: [PATCH] Add a way to disable
 substitution of command keys in help strings)
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2019 01:54:01 +0000

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Your bug report

#37785: [PATCH] Add a way to disable substitution of command keys in help strings

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

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From: Clément Pit-Claudel <cpitclaudel <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 37785-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, rpluim <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#37785: [PATCH] Add a way to disable substitution of command
 keys in help strings
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2019 21:53:49 -0400

On 2019-10-20 08:08, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> LGTM.  Please feel free to install, after fixing this one nit:

Done! Thanks again for your help :)

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From: Clément Pit-Claudel <cpitclaudel <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: [PATCH] Add a way to disable substitution of command keys in help
 strings
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2019 21:41:27 -0400

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Hi all,

On 2019-10-05 04:13, Eli Zaretskii wrote (on emacs-devel):
> I guess we need to add some feature to control whether help-echo gets
> run through substitute-command-keys, or add an alternative to
> help-echo that works exactly like it, but without substitutions.
> Patches welcome.
[…]
> I'd prefer a property like help-echo-inhibit-substitution that is
> non-nil, to inhibit the call to substitute-command-keys.  A value of
> nil is easy to confuse with no property at all.

Here is a first cut at a patch implementing this feature.  I hope this tracker is the right place to post it.  I'm also not quite sure I got the Changelog format right.

Cheers,
Clément.

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