More key strangeness (was: 23.0.60; kbd returns wrong value)

[David Kastrup]

"Drew Adams" <address@hidden> writes:

>> > (string-match "[^ \t\n\f<]+\\|<[^>]+>" ...
>> 
>> To avoid problems with C-x < and such, I'd recomment
>> (string-match "[^ \t\n\f<]+\\|<[^ \n>]\\(?:[^>]*[^ >\n]\\)?>" ...
>> So there can be spaces in symbols, but not as first or last char.
>
> See my previous message in reply to David, and my followup to that. Like 
> David's
> suggestion for the regexp, yours fails for "C-x <":
>
> (edmacro-parse-keys "C-x <") gives "^X" (control-x character).
>
>> The handling of "C-x <<" and such shouldn't matter because 
>> these aren't valid anyway.
>
> Then what is that part of the code for? Addin some comments to the code would
> help understanding.

Typing C-h k C-x <menu-bar> <options> <highlight-paren-mode>
gives the resulting error message
C-x <menu-bar> is undefined
in the *Messages* buffer, but
<highlight-paren-mode> is undefined
in the echo area.

Wow.  Where does that discrepancy come from?

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum