Subject: Re: bug#78714: 30.1; failure binding keys to certain unicode characters

From: Robert Pluim <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2025 13:48:31 +0200

>>>>> On Mon, 9 Jun 2025 11:05:40 +0100, John Holman <[email-masked]> said:

    John> Many thanks Andreas - that's certainly more concise than using a lambda.
    John> I do think this is a trap for users who may expect that a key definition
    John> that a single character string simply specifies the character to be
    John> inserted when that key is pressed rather than a macro. Treating a string
    John> with a single character as a character to insert rather than a
    John> one-character macro might avoid that, or if that is awkward to implement or
    John> otherwise undesirable an explicit warning in the documentation might help.
    John> The documentation for define-key does say that a string is treated as a
    John> keyboard macro, but the significance of that is easy to miss.

(info "(emacs) Init Rebinding") describes how to do this. The
docstring for `keymap-global-set' also mentions `key-description',
which avoids the need to manually write in vector notation, which I
guess we could add to `keymap-set' as well.

Robert
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