Re: save-some-buffers' "^R" sends user to recursive edit view modeanxiety

[Kevin Rodgers]

Dan Jacobson wrote:

> Also, regarding the "^R to display the current buffer;" message
> itself. It must have been real early emacs. Don't put a real live ^R
> there, some of us cut and paste into gnus and then gnus tells us
> there's illegible text and we end up having to repair it on the
> outgoing spool as gnus wasn't forthcoming about where it was enough.
> A "^" . "R" is better, but "C-r" is more consistent.

I think the problem is actually in map-y-or-n-p:


*** emacs-21.3/lisp/map-ynp.el.orig     Sun Jul 15 10:15:34 2001
--- emacs-21.3/lisp/map-ynp.el  Tue Jun 17 08:41:54 2003
***************
*** 207,214 ****
                                        objects)
                                (mapconcat (function
                                            (lambda (elt)
!                                             (format "%c to %s"
!                                                     (nth 0 elt)
                                                      (nth 2 elt))))
                                           action-alist
                                           ";\n")
--- 207,216 ----
                                        objects)
                                (mapconcat (function
                                            (lambda (elt)
!                                             (format "%s to %s"
!                                                     (key-description
!                                                      (char-to-string
!                                                       (nth 0 elt)))
                                                      (nth 2 elt))))
                                           action-alist
                                           ";\n")