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#6456
24.0.50; quoted-insert not working properly for many keys
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Reported by: Tim Van Holder <tim.vanholder <at> gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:07:02 UTC
Severity: normal
Merged with 6290
Found in versions 24.0.50, 24.0.50.1
Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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In current bzr trunk, quoted-insert is not working properly. After
pressing C-q, there are several keys that, when pressed, cause the
insertion of a NUL character (^@) followed by processing the key's
active binding.
Some of the keys in question: [tab], [enter], [kp-enter], [pause],
[escape], [f2], [Scroll_Lock], ...
For some keys like [pause] and [Scroll_Lock] I can see that there is not
really a key to insert, but then my expectation would be that nothing is
inserted and perhaps an error is issued by quoted-insert.
For keys like [tab] and [enter] this is genuinely annoying. Most of my
uses of C-q are to insert a TAB character in modes where TAB is mapped
to an indentation function, of for inserting a CR. Granted, C-q C-i and
C-q C-m still work for this purpose, but [tab] and [return] are far more
"natural" ways to enter these.
Tested with emacs -Q as well, so it's not a configuration issue.
In GNU Emacs 24.0.50.15 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.8.20)
of 2010-06-18 on leeloo
Windowing system distributor `The Cygwin/X Project', version 11.0.10503000
configured using `configure '--with-x''
This bug report was last modified 15 years and 8 days ago.
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