Re: [Bug: 21.4.15] global-set-key
Bug Team and/or Stephen Turnbull,
Thanks for the quick response. Please see my comments in-line.
Scott
Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> It had the unfortunate side effect of also changing the
behavior of
> [(control x) c] from save-buffers-kill-emacs to
> split-window-horizontally.
That is a typo, I think. You mean [(control x) (control c)]
whoops, yes I did.
> According to the documentation in define-key (C-h f define-key), ascii
> characters are mapped to themselves:
`3' is an integer, which is mapped to a character according to the
ASCII table, ie, to ?\003, or control-C. (Larger integers use an
Emacs-specific extension of the ASCII table.) This is for
backward compatibility.
I agree with your logic (for 3 = ?\003), but that's not what define-key says.
My guess is that this isn't so much a bug as a case where the documentation is
not clear. The doc ( define-key ) says:
===quote===
A keysym may be represented by a symbol, or (if and only if it is equivalent
to an ASCII character in the range 32 - 255) by a character or its equivalent
ASCII code. [...]
===end quote===
I interpret this to mean that ANY character in the range [32,255] can use it's
representation (eg. 'a') instead of its ascii code '65'. Since
'3' =
ascii(51), I assumed I could use '3' according to this rule also. Apparently I
was mistaken.
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