bug#237: marked as done (23.0.60; kbd returns wrong value)

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Your message dated Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:47:14 -0400
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and subject line Re: 23.0.60; kbd returns wrong value
has caused the Emacs bug report #237,
regarding 23.0.60; kbd returns wrong value
to be marked as done.

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> 23.0.60; kbd returns wrong value
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> Tue, 13 May 2008 13:01:55 -0700
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> This is a menu item in menu-bar-help-menu:
> <describe> <describe-language-environment> <European> <Brazilian Portuguese>
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> Evaluating this:
> (kbd "<describe> <describe-language-environment> <European> <Brazilian
> Portuguese>")
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> produces the following incorrect result:
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> [describe describe-language-environment European
>  60 66 114 97 122 105 108 105 97 110 80 111 114
>  116 117 103 117 101 115 101 62]
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> After tracing edmacro-parse-keys, the problem seems to be here:
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> (while (and (< pos (length string))
>   (string-match "[^ \t\n\f]+" string pos))
>       (let ((word (substring string (match-beginning 0) (match-end 0)))
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> The sexp (substring "<describe> <describe-language-environment> <European>
> <Brazilian Portuguese>" 54 64) returns "<Brazilian", which is only half of the
> entry.
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> IOW, the code is not expecting a space char. Which is the problem: the
> edmacro-parse-keys code or the definition of the key itself,
> <Brazilian Portuguese>, which includes a space char?
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> This problem is not new with Emacs 23, BTW.
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> In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
>  of 2008-05-04 on LENNART-69DE564
> Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
> configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4) --no-opt --cflags -Ic:/g/include
> -fno-crossjumping'
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> Re: 23.0.60; kbd returns wrong value
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> Date: 
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> Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:47:14 -0400
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> > This is a menu item in menu-bar-help-menu:
> > <describe> <describe-language-environment> <European> <Brazilian Portuguese>
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> > Evaluating this:
> > (kbd "<describe> <describe-language-environment> <European>
> > <Brazilian Portuguese>")
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> > produces the following incorrect result:
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> I've checked in a fix.  Thanks.
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