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bug#553: 23.0.60; Unknown button type `quail-keyboard-layout-button'
From: |
Chong Yidong |
Subject: |
bug#553: 23.0.60; Unknown button type `quail-keyboard-layout-button' |
Date: |
Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:41:58 -0400 |
Hi Handa-san,
> 1. `emacs -Q'
> 2. `M-: (require 'help-mode) RET'
> or run any Help command that loads this mode
> 3. Activate an input method by C-\
> 4. Click `mouse-3' on the input method's indicator
> on the mode-line
>
> It fills the *Help* buffer with the text only until
> it tries to create a button, and fails with the error
> "make-text-button: Unknown button type `quail-keyboard-layout-button'".
>
> This is because `quail-help-init' fails to define new button types.
> It currently has the form:
>
> (defun quail-help-init ()
> (unless (featurep 'help-mode)
> (require 'help-mode)
> (define-button-type 'quail-keyboard-layout-button
> :supertype 'help-xref
> 'help-function '(lambda (layout)
> (help-setup-xref `(quail-keyboard-layout-button ,layout)
> nil)
> (quail-show-keyboard-layout layout))
> 'help-echo (purecopy "mouse-2, RET: show keyboard layout"))
>
> (define-button-type 'quail-keyboard-customize-button
> :supertype 'help-customize-variable
> 'help-echo (purecopy "mouse-2, RET: customize keyboard layout"))))
>
> So it doesn't define two button types if `help-mode' is already loaded.
>
> I guess it was done to define them only once, and not redefine on next
> invocations.
Do you remember why you wrote quail-help-init this way? It seems
unnecessary; why not define the button types directly at the top level
of quail.el?
- bug#553: 23.0.60; Unknown button type `quail-keyboard-layout-button',
Chong Yidong <=