Subject: bug#70938: 30.0.50; Edebug appropriates overriding-terminal-local-map

From: Stephen Berman <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 21 May 2024 11:15:15 +0200

On Wed, 15 May 2024 20:51:08 +0200 Stephen Berman <[email-masked]> wrote:

> On Wed, 15 May 2024 17:24:24 +0200 Michael Heerdegen
> <[email-masked]> wrote:
>
>> Michael Heerdegen via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife
>> of text editors" <[email-masked]> writes:
>>
>>> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
>>> (progn
>>>   (set-transient-map (let ((m (make-sparse-keymap)))
>>>                        (define-key m [?^]
>>>                          (lambda () (interactive) (message "Hmm...")))
>>>                        m))
>>>   (let ((overriding-terminal-local-map nil))
>>>     (recursive-edit)))
>>> #+end_src
>>
>> A possible approach that seems to fix the reported bug:
>
> I confirm your patch prevents Edebug from "appropriating"
> overriding-terminal-local-map both in my test case and also in
> todo-mode.el, where I first bumped into the problem.  And your analysis
> of why Edebug triggered the problem seems convincing to me, too.
> Thanks!

Do you (or does anyone else) have any reason not to install this patch?

Steve Berman