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24.3.50; Wrong type argument: char-or-string-p, 67108923 |
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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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