GNU bug report logs - #62626
29.0.60; describe-key errors on Edit → Paste from Kill Ring → [any item]

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh <at> janestreet.com>

Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2023 18:50:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 29.0.60

Fixed in version 30.2

Done: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh <at> janestreet.com>

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh <at> janestreet.com>
Cc: 62626 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#62626: 29.0.60; describe-key errors on Edit → Paste from Kill Ring → [any item]
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2023 14:49:13 +0300
> From: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh <at> janestreet.com>
> Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2023 15:06:53 -0400
> 
> describe-key is also broken with context-menu-mode in a different way,
> btw.  It generates the help buffer fine, but the last key in the
> sequence is wrong.  It looks like read-key-sequence returns a numeric
> index into the menu for that key, counting up from from the last menu
> entry and starting at 1, and then the help buffer is interpreting that
> number as a key.

Please provide a recipe (and perhaps report this as a different bug,
unless my proposed solution happens to fix this one as well, by sheer
luck).

Thanks.




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