GNU bug report logs - #9751
23.3; Alternative Keyboard Feature/Bug

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Nikos Pitsianis <nikos <at> cs.duke.edu>

Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 07:19:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 23.3

Done: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #77 received at 9751 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>
Cc: lekktu <at> gmail.com, Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>,
	Nikos Pitsianis <nikos <at> cs.duke.edu>, 9751 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#9751: 23.3; Alternative Keyboard Feature/Bug
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 08:21:27 -0400

> But typing `;' in View mode does nothing, it doesn't run `View-quit'.
> `C-h k ;' in View mode says:
>   ; runs the command self-insert-command
> whereas in other modes (e.g. Dired and Help mode) it says:

That's because view-mode does not change key-bindings, it just overlays
its own and set buffer-read-only, so ; is still bound to
self-insert-command (which just signals an error).

Changing the keyboard.c code so that function-key-map applies also in
such a case would be pushing it too far.


        Stefan
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