From unknown Fri Jun 20 07:16:17 2025 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.509 (Entity 5.509) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 From: bug#38597 <38597@debbugs.gnu.org> To: bug#38597 <38597@debbugs.gnu.org> Subject: Status: 26.3; M-x describe-key-briefly does not work with various keys in various modes Reply-To: bug#38597 <38597@debbugs.gnu.org> Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2025 14:16:17 +0000 retitle 38597 26.3; M-x describe-key-briefly does not work with various key= s in various modes reassign 38597 emacs submitter 38597 Ed Sabol severity 38597 normal thanks From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Fri Dec 13 14:59:18 2019 Received: (at submit) by debbugs.gnu.org; 13 Dec 2019 19:59:19 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34665 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ifr5q-0002MB-H3 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 13 Dec 2019 14:59:18 -0500 Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]:59639) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ifr5o-0002M2-5O for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 13 Dec 2019 14:59:16 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:37900) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ifr5m-0001ZF-EJ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Dec 2019 14:59:15 -0500 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on eggs.gnu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=disabled version=3.3.2 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ifr5k-0000ec-Fd for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Dec 2019 14:59:13 -0500 Received: from bigbang.gsfc.nasa.gov ([128.183.16.133]:36280) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ifr5k-0000as-4p for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Dec 2019 14:59:12 -0500 Received: from alderaan.gsfc.nasa.gov (alderaan.gsfc.nasa.gov [128.183.53.160]) by bigbang.gsfc.nasa.gov (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id xBDJx8vq019070; Fri, 13 Dec 2019 14:59:09 -0500 DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.11.0 bigbang.gsfc.nasa.gov xBDJx8vq019070 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=bigbang.gsfc.nasa.gov; s=bigbang-2018-09; t=1576267150; bh=gtxJbgxzv9c8S6dwNywty9haNX+j9Pl/R+przaIkcL4=; h=From:To:Subject:Reply-To:Date:From; b=D1VPSXTxQuDXuJGmXKilToMH20U3G83bYTbnfVPcxmIT50lNvtdHDsEY/2jMiFPAc SZTFGnbL1tlZuVqagVBELD3dj2pdqb8f6Ryfc5Te2WVSC/+J7AMu6gPNqG4/Q8CRsa MDmcTRPTwv/Cso1AmIRrOTpYH8Oj7A2RlGLsONFM= Received: by alderaan.gsfc.nasa.gov (Postfix, from userid 679) id C2673203EC; Fri, 13 Dec 2019 14:59:08 -0500 (EST) From: "Edward J. Sabol" To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Subject: 26.3; M-x describe-key-briefly does not work with various keys in various modes MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Message-Id: <20191213195908.C2673203EC@alderaan.gsfc.nasa.gov> Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2019 14:59:08 -0500 (EST) X-Greylist: inspected by milter-greylist-4.5.12 (bigbang.gsfc.nasa.gov [128.183.16.133]); Fri, 13 Dec 2019 14:59:09 -0500 (EST) for IP:'128.183.53.160' DOMAIN:'alderaan.gsfc.nasa.gov' HELO:'alderaan.gsfc.nasa.gov' FROM:'edward.j.sabol@nasa.gov' RCPT:'' X-Greylist: Default is to whitelist mail, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.12 (bigbang.gsfc.nasa.gov [128.183.16.133]); Fri, 13 Dec 2019 14:59:09 -0500 (EST) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.84 on 128.183.16.133 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by bigbang.gsfc.nasa.gov id xBDJx8vq019070 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 128.183.16.133 X-Spam-Score: -1.3 (-) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: submit X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Reply-To: Ed Sabol Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -2.3 (--) Steps to repoduce: 1. Open an RMAIL file. 2. M-x rmail-mode 3. Type `h' to generate rmail-summary window for the RMAIL file and switch to the RMAIL-summary buffer/window. 4. Type `M-x describe-key-briefly' and then type `r'. I would expect the "r" key to be described in the minibuffer, but it is n= ot. It only seems to work if you use `C-h c'. This is with `emacs -Q'. This doesn't have anything to do with rmail-mode, I think. I'm just using= it to illustrate the issue. This is a regression, but I'm not sure from when. I know `M-x describe-key-briefly' works in Emacs 21.2. In GNU Emacs 26.3 (build 2, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit) of 2019-11-19 built on heasarcdev Windowing system distributor 'Scientific Linux', version 11.0.11704000 System Description: Scientific Linux release 6.10 (Carbon) Recent messages: Checking 176 files in /software/usr/contrib/share/emacs/26.3/lisp/emacs-l= isp... Checking 24 files in /software/usr/contrib/share/emacs/26.3/lisp/cedet... Checking 57 files in /software/usr/contrib/share/emacs/26.3/lisp/calendar= ... Checking 87 files in /software/usr/contrib/share/emacs/26.3/lisp/calc... Checking 105 files in /software/usr/contrib/share/emacs/26.3/lisp/obsolet= e... Checking for load-path shadows...done Type y, n, ! or SPC (the space bar):=20 Please type y, n, ! or SPC (the space bar): [3 times] Quit You can run the command =91switch-to-buffer=92 with C-x b r runs the command rmail-summary-reply Configured using: 'configure --prefix=3D/software/usr/contrib --exec-prefix=3D/software/usr/contrib/linux-6.x --with-x-toolkit=3Dlucid --with-xft=3Dyes --with-toolkit-scroll-bars=3Dno --with-gif=3Dno --with-tiff=3Dno --with-gnutls=3Dno' Configured features: XAW3D XPM JPEG PNG SOUND GSETTINGS GLIB NOTIFY LIBSELINUX LIBXML2 FREETYPE XFT ZLIB LUCID X11 XDBE XIM THREADS Important settings: value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=3Dnone locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: RMAIL Summary Minor modes in effect: tooltip-mode: t global-eldoc-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t buffer-read-only: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (novice pp shadow sort emacsbug sendmail mail-extr qp rmailsum help-mode rmailmm message rmc puny seq byte-opt gv bytecomp byte-compile cconv cl-loaddefs cl-lib dired dired-loaddefs format-spec rfc822 mml easymenu mml-sec password-cache epa derived epg epg-config gnus-util mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader mail-parse rfc2231 rmail rmail-loaddefs rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils elec-pair time-date mule-util tooltip eldoc electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel term/x-win x-win term/common-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list replace newcomment text-mode elisp-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow isearch timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core term/tty-colors frame cl-generic cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms cp51932 hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese composite charscript charprop case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev obarray minibuffer cl-preloaded nadvice loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote threads inotify dynamic-setting font-render-setting x-toolkit x multi-tty make-network-process emacs) Memory information: ((conses 16 146727 30001) (symbols 48 20923 0) (miscs 40 6173 5232) (strings 32 37078 5051) (string-bytes 1 1368553) (vectors 16 15170) (vector-slots 8 530473 14410) (floats 8 53 251) (intervals 56 44328 4019) (buffers 992 19) (heap 1024 22266 1027)) From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Fri Dec 13 15:31:14 2019 Received: (at 38597-done) by debbugs.gnu.org; 13 Dec 2019 20:31:14 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34690 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ifrak-0005Kc-8E for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 13 Dec 2019 15:31:14 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:52811) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ifrai-0005KM-5q for 38597-done@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 13 Dec 2019 15:31:12 -0500 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:46947) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ifrab-0000mc-Ll; Fri, 13 Dec 2019 15:31:05 -0500 Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1935 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ifraZ-0004ae-Lo; Fri, 13 Dec 2019 15:31:05 -0500 Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2019 22:31:00 +0200 Message-Id: <83lfrg6k8r.fsf@gnu.org> From: Eli Zaretskii To: Ed Sabol , "Edward J. Sabol" In-reply-to: <20191213195908.C2673203EC@alderaan.gsfc.nasa.gov> (bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org) Subject: Re: bug#38597: 26.3; M-x describe-key-briefly does not work with various keys in various modes References: <20191213195908.C2673203EC@alderaan.gsfc.nasa.gov> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Spam-Score: -2.3 (--) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 38597-done Cc: 38597-done@debbugs.gnu.org X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -3.3 (---) > Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2019 14:59:08 -0500 (EST) > From: "Edward J. Sabol" via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, > the Swiss army knife of text editors" > > Steps to repoduce: > 1. Open an RMAIL file. > 2. M-x rmail-mode > 3. Type `h' to generate rmail-summary window for the RMAIL file and > switch to the RMAIL-summary buffer/window. > 4. Type `M-x describe-key-briefly' and then type `r'. > > I would expect the "r" key to be described in the minibuffer, but it is not. > It only seems to work if you use `C-h c'. This is with `emacs -Q'. Thanks, this appears to be already fixed in the development sources, which will become Emacs 27.1. From unknown Fri Jun 20 07:16:17 2025 Received: (at fakecontrol) by fakecontrolmessage; To: internal_control@debbugs.gnu.org From: Debbugs Internal Request Subject: Internal Control Message-Id: bug archived. Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2020 12:24:05 +0000 User-Agent: Fakemail v42.6.9 # This is a fake control message. # # The action: # bug archived. thanks # This fakemail brought to you by your local debbugs # administrator