[debbugs-tracker] bug#16677: closed (24.3.50; Wrong type argument: char-or-string-p, 67108923)

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has caused the debbugs.gnu.org bug report #16677,
regarding 24.3.50; Wrong type argument: char-or-string-p, 67108923
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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)
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> emacs -Q
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> C-q C-;
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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).
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> Emacs can do better than that - this is, after all, a command, i.e.,
> something that users use directly.
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> (I discovered this by accident, when my fingers slipped.)
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> 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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> Re: bug#16677: 24.3.50; Wrong type argument: char-or-string-p, 67108923
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> Committed (using key-description instead of help-key-description).
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