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[debbugs-tracker] bug#16677: closed (24.3.50; Wrong type argument: char-


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Subject: [debbugs-tracker] bug#16677: closed (24.3.50; Wrong type argument: char-or-string-p, 67108923)
Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2014 11:16:02 +0000

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regarding 24.3.50; Wrong type argument: char-or-string-p, 67108923
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--- Begin Message --- Subject: 24.3.50; Wrong type argument: char-or-string-p, 67108923 Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 18:57:20 -0800 (PST)
emacs -Q

C-q C-;

Gives the cited error message.  It should give a more user
interface-level error, saying something to the effect that the key
sequence you used does not correspond to a character.

Note: in Emacs 20, this just inserts the escape character (^[), which is
wrong.  In Emacs 22, it just inserts the semicolon character (;), which
is also wrong.

Emacs 23 got it right, but it did not make the extra effort to give the
user an error message that s?he deserves: something more helpful than a
low-level barf message (even if that message might be comprehensible to
a knowledgable Emacs user).

Emacs can do better than that - this is, after all, a command, i.e.,
something that users use directly.

(I discovered this by accident, when my fingers slipped.)

In GNU Emacs 24.3.50.1 (i686-pc-mingw32)
 of 2014-02-02 on ODIEONE
Bzr revision: 116242 address@hidden
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601
Configured using:
 `configure --prefix=/c/Devel/emacs/binary --enable-checking=yes,glyphs
 'CFLAGS=-O0 -g3' LDFLAGS=-Lc:/Devel/emacs/lib
 CPPFLAGS=-Ic:/Devel/emacs/include'



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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Re: bug#16677: 24.3.50; Wrong type argument: char-or-string-p, 67108923 Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 12:15:04 +0100
Committed (using key-description instead of help-key-description).


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