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bug#16617: 24.3.50; REGRESSION: `C-q ?' pops up annoying *Char Help* buf
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Daniel Colascione |
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bug#16617: 24.3.50; REGRESSION: `C-q ?' pops up annoying *Char Help* buffer |
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Thu, 03 Apr 2014 12:32:02 -0700 |
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Drew's right this time.
On 04/03/2014 12:24 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2014 11:38:15 -0700 (PDT)
>> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
>> Cc: drew.adams@oracle.com, 16617@debbugs.gnu.org
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>> What problem did I report? "`C-q ?' pops up an annoying
>> "*Char Help*" buffer." What part of that is not clear?
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> It's clear, I just don't agree that it's a problem. It is intended
> behavior shared by many other Emacs commands.
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>> Why should `C-q ?' show any "help"?
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> Because '?' is a help character.
We should make an exception for C-q. Its purpose is explicitly to
*override* normal Emacs convention. I'd be happy echoing a help message
as soon as C-q is entered, and maybe popping up help on F1, but we
should certainly treat "?" like any other character.
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- bug#16617: 24.3.50; REGRESSION: `C-q ?' pops up annoying *Char Help* buffer, (continued)
- bug#16617: 24.3.50; REGRESSION: `C-q ?' pops up annoying *Char Help* buffer, Leo Liu, 2014/04/03
- bug#16617: 24.3.50; REGRESSION: `C-q ?' pops up annoying *Char Help* buffer, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/04/03
- bug#16617: 24.3.50; REGRESSION: `C-q ?' pops up annoying *Char Help* buffer, Drew Adams, 2014/04/03
- bug#16617: 24.3.50; REGRESSION: `C-q ?' pops up annoying *Char Help* buffer, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/04/03
- bug#16617: 24.3.50; REGRESSION: `C-q ?' pops up annoying *Char Help* buffer,
Daniel Colascione <=
- bug#16617: 24.3.50; REGRESSION: `C-q ?' pops up annoying *Char Help* buffer, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/04/04
- bug#16617: 24.3.50; REGRESSION: `C-q ?' pops up annoying *Char Help* buffer, Drew Adams, 2014/04/04
- bug#16617: 24.3.50; REGRESSION: `C-q ?' pops up annoying *Char Help* buffer, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/04/04
- bug#16617: 24.3.50; REGRESSION: `C-q ?' pops up annoying *Char Help* buffer, Drew Adams, 2014/04/04
- bug#16617: 24.3.50; REGRESSION: `C-q ?' pops up annoying *Char Help* buffer, Drew Adams, 2014/04/03
- bug#16617: 24.3.50; REGRESSION: `C-q ?' pops up annoying *Char Help* buffer, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/04/04
bug#16617: 24.3.50; REGRESSION: `C-q ?' pops up annoying *Char Help* buffer, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/04/03