Subject: bug#65805: 30.0.50; quoted-insert doesn't work in zap-to-char

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2023 10:17:39 +0300

> From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Filipp Gunbin <[email-masked]>,  [email-masked]
> Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2023 12:47:03 -0400
> 
> Eli Zaretskii [2023-09-07 18:07:46] wrote:
> 
> > That's because we switched to using read-from-minibuffer (via
> > read-char-from-minibuffer) instead of using read-char, for the dubious
> > benefit of being able to use history in this command, see bug#10477.
> > And read-from-minibuffer interprets some characters specially.
> >
> > Stefan, is there a way to have this cake and eat it, too?
> 
> How 'bout the patch below?

Is this appropriate for emacs-29?

> AFAICT it would also make it unnecessary to use
> `read-char-from-minibuffer-insert-char`.

Not sure I understand what are you proposing here about that function.

Thanks.