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bug#16617: 24.3.50; REGRESSION: `C-q ?' pops up annoying *Char Help* buf
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#16617: 24.3.50; REGRESSION: `C-q ?' pops up annoying *Char Help* buffer |
Date: |
Fri, 04 Apr 2014 22:43:40 +0300 |
> Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2014 09:25:19 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Cc: sdl.web@gmail.com, 16617@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> > Not sure I agree about '?', but in any case this is NOT the main part
> > of Drew's complaints. He says that help text should not be shown at
> > all, ever.
>
> No, I did NOT say that at all. You seem to have trouble reading the
> bug report. I said that THIS bug is ONLY that the help text is shown
> for `?' in contexts where `?' is not a help character.
Ts-ts-ts, and I was having such a good day until now... Oh, well...
Drew in his original report:
> 3. This *Char Help* buffer should not be popped up at all - for ANY char
> that you type after `C-q'. This is a misfeature.
(Of course now you will claim that F1 is not a character.)
> > _That_ is certainly not a regression, as Emacs have
> > behaved like that since about forever.
>
> I also doubt that that is true. Certainly in Emacs 20 `C-q ?'
> inserts `?' when `?' is not a help char. IOW, THIS regression is
> not present in Emacs 20.
Try with F1.
> And `grep' does not find "Char Help" anywhere in the Emacs 20 lisp
> or C files.
It was just *Help* back then.
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- bug#16617: 24.3.50; REGRESSION: `C-q ?' pops up annoying *Char Help* buffer,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- 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