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23.2; ^S^Q^@ --error--> Wrong type argument: characterp, 67108896

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From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: "Trent W. Buck" <trentbuck <at> gmail.com>, 6212 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6212: 23.2; ^S^Q^@ --error--> Wrong type argument: characterp, 67108896
Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 16:52:32 -0400

Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> Indeed, that's part of the culprit.  The reason for the remapping is
> that as the comment tries to explain many terminals send C-@ when the
> user hits C-SPC, so rather than bind commands to both <prefix> C-SPC and
> <prefix> C-@, it's much better to let key remapping handling it once and
> for all.  The "canonical" binding is for C-SPC, so we want to remap C-@
> to C-SPC rather than the other way around.
>
> But note that C-q C-SPC works just fine, so the remapping from
> C-@ to C-SPC is not really the core problem.
>
> I think the patch I just installed (appended) will fix things.
> Can you confirm?

Yes, it fixes the bug.  Thanks.

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