Subject: bug#70596: 30.0.50; key-translate returns error for key sequences with punctuation marks

From: Alexander Prähauser <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2024 10:47:18 +0000

"Eli Zaretskii" <[email-masked]> writes:

Ah, I see. Then I guess you can close this report. So is there no way to
translate C-. into C-g?

>> Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2024 09:24:58 +0000
>> From: Alexander Prähauser <[email-masked]>
>> Cc: [email-masked]
>>
>> "Eli Zaretskii" <[email-masked]> writes:
>>
>> I see. But shouldn't (key-valid-p "C-.") return nil then?
>
> No, because it's a valid key (but not a valid character).
>
> Not every key is a character.  In fact, most keys are not valid
> characters, because they name GUI function keys, like <Delete>.