Subject: bug#38642: 'C-x RET c' gets stuck in universal-argument loop

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2019 09:10:35 +0200

> From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>,  [email-masked],
>   [email-masked]
> Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2019 17:52:17 -0500
> 
> > Stefan, any ideas for how to fix this unintended consequence?
> 
> I installed a patch which seems to fix it.  We should rewrite this
> function completely, but I tried to minimize the changes for now.

Thanks.  I think a more radical change could be installed after the
release branch is cut.