[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
bug#835: 23.0.60; Quick calc is quietly disabled in view-mode
From: |
martin rudalics |
Subject: |
bug#835: 23.0.60; Quick calc is quietly disabled in view-mode |
Date: |
Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:00:03 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708) |
> Yeah, it's somewhat opaque code. The way the ASCII table is set up is
> that character 1 is the character ^A, character 2 is the character ^B,
> and so forth, until character 65 is the unmodified character A. Hence
> (char-to-string (- ?n ?a -1)) gives 14 == ^N. (Also, ASCII control
> characters are case insensitive: there's no separate ^n character.)
This makes sense iff the designer wanted to correct an accidentally held
down control key behavior (the code obviously never lived up to that due
to the regexp bug).
> I suppose this means we have to find a separate fix for the original
> bug...
... well, nothing hinders us assigning n, C-n and N to the same key.
But I'd like to hear Jay's comments first.
martin