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31.0.50; read-multiple-choice / read-key and input-decode-map

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann <at> gmail.com>,
 Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 75886 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#75886: 31.0.50;
 read-multiple-choice / read-key and input-decode-map
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2025 14:37:40 +0200

> From: Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2025 07:07:46 +0100
> 
> I am running emacs -nw on a terminal supporting the Kitty Keyboard
> Protocol, and I am using the kkp package from MELPA to make use of the
> additional keys KKP makes possible to use.
> 
> Must know:
> 
> 1. Kkp works by adding entries to input-decode-map, among them a binding
> for C-g, which arrives from the terminal as an escape sequence which
> input-decode-map maps to ^G.
> 
> 2. read-event does not consult input-decode-map:
> 
>   #+begin_src eemacs-lisp
>     (read-event) ;; press C-g
>     => 27
>  [103;5u
>   #+end_src
> 
> 3. read-multiple-choice uses read-event.
> 
> Bug 1:
> 
> Modify a buffer and C-x k it. A prompt appears asking what to do. The
> prompt comes from read-multiple-choice. Press C-g. That results in
> "invalid choice" because read-multiple-choice gets (part of) the escape
> sequence the terminal sends from read-event.
> 
> Bug 2:
> 
> I would have thought that replacing read-event with read-key in
> reac-multiple-choice would have solved this, because read-key consults
> input-decode-map. But that is not the case because read-key behaves
> differently if input-decode-map has an entry for C-g or not.
> 
> Without input-decode-map for C-g.
> 
> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
>   (read-key) ;; press C-g
>   => Quit
> #+end_src
> 
> With input-decode-map setting for C-g:
> 
> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
>   (read-key) ;; press C-g
>   => 7
> #+end_src
> 
> Sorry for lumping these two bugs together, but I think it's easier to
> understand this way.

This is a dark corner in Emacs, so I'm adding Stefan to the discussion
in the hope that he might have comments and ideas to suggest.

Thanks.

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