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29.0.60; describe-key errors on Edit → Paste from Kill Ring → [any item]

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From: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh <at> janestreet.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
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 09:07:46 -0400

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> 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.

Ah I wasn't clear, it's also an issue with yank-menu.  Probably
basically the same bug?  Recipe:

1. emacs -Q
2. M-x context-menu-mode RET
3. Type "foobar" and kill it
4. C-h k and right click, then "Paste from Kill Menu", then "(any string)".
5. Observe the help buffer claims the key sequence was:
<down-mouse-3> <paste-from-menu> C-a

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