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27.0.50; [ELPA][PATCH] debbugs: bind to RET rather than return |
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Mon, 09 Dec 2019 20:27:59 +0100 |
Hello,
debbugs-gnu.el binds debbugs-gnu-select-report and
debbugs-gnu-select-usertag to [return]. Unless I'm mistaken, this
designates only the function key, and terminals do not tell applications
that function keys were pressed. In the case of [return], they only
send RET, i.e. the C-m character.
Concretely, this means that on a TTY, the return key is not bound to
those functions, as RET is bound to newline. Pressing return thus leads
to the following error message:
> command-execute: Buffer is read-only: #<buffer *Emacs Bugs*>
(Also, weirdos like me who actually use control+m instead of the return
key are screwed on graphical sessions too.)
On the other hand, if one binds those functions to (kbd "RET") ≡ "\C-m"
≡ "\r", Emacs automatically translates [return] to RET, and everything
Just Works™.
Suggested patch:
diff --git a/packages/debbugs/debbugs-gnu.el b/packages/debbugs/debbugs-gnu.el
index 5789d80db..b9d9083e3 100644
--- a/packages/debbugs/debbugs-gnu.el
+++ b/packages/debbugs/debbugs-gnu.el
@@ -987,7 +987,7 @@ Used instead of `tabulated-list-print-entry'."
(let ((map (make-sparse-keymap))
(menu-map (make-sparse-keymap)))
(set-keymap-parent map tabulated-list-mode-map)
- (define-key map [return] #'debbugs-gnu-select-report)
+ (define-key map "\C-m" #'debbugs-gnu-select-report)
(define-key map [mouse-2] #'debbugs-gnu-select-report)
(define-key map "A" #'debbugs-gnu-select-current-bugs)
(define-key map "g" #'debbugs-gnu-rescan)
@@ -2163,7 +2163,7 @@ successfully sent."
(defvar debbugs-gnu-usertags-mode-map
(let ((map (make-sparse-keymap)))
(set-keymap-parent map tabulated-list-mode-map)
- (define-key map [return] #'debbugs-gnu-select-usertag)
+ (define-key map "\C-m" #'debbugs-gnu-select-usertag)
(define-key map [mouse-2] #'debbugs-gnu-select-usertag)
map))
(I picked "\C-m" out of all possible spellings because AFAICT it's the
one that comes up most often in the Emacs source tree, but maybe it's
not the best possible one.)
Thank you for your time.
References:
- (emacs) Keymaps
> Most modern keyboards have function keys as well as character
> keys. Function keys send input events just as character keys
> do, and keymaps can have bindings for them.
>
> …
>
> On text terminals, typing a function key actually sends the
> computer a sequence of characters; the precise details of the
> sequence depends on the function key and on the terminal type.
- (emacs) Named ASCII Chars
> Emacs can distinguish these two kinds of input if the keyboard
> does. It treats the special keys as function keys named ‘tab’,
> ‘return’, ‘backspace’, ‘linefeed’, ‘escape’, and ‘delete’.
> These function keys translate automatically into the
> corresponding ASCII characters _if_ they have no bindings of
> their own.
>
> If you do not want to distinguish between (for example) <TAB>
> and ‘C-i’, make just one binding, for the ASCII character
> <TAB> (octal code 011). If you do want to distinguish, make one
> binding for this ASCII character, and another for the function
> key ‘tab’.
>
> With an ordinary ASCII terminal, there is no way to distinguish
> between <TAB> and ‘C-i’ (and likewise for other such pairs),
> because the terminal sends the same character in both cases.
- a *scratch* buffer:
> (kbd "RET") ; "^M"
> (kbd "\r") ; "^M"
> (kbd "C-m") ; "^M"
> (kbd "<return>") ; [return]
- on X:
> C-h c ⏎ ; RET (translated from <return>) runs the command newline
- on a TTY:
> C-h c ⏎ ; RET runs the command newline
In GNU Emacs 27.0.50 (build 4, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.12, cairo
version 1.16.0)
of 2019-12-09 built on my-little-tumbleweed
Repository revision: 51176ee81e8e773d8b6ac06dd153846abee0c0f4
Repository branch: master
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12006000
System Description: openSUSE Tumbleweed
Configured using:
'configure --with-xwidgets --with-cairo'
Configured features:
XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG CAIRO SOUND GPM DBUS GSETTINGS GLIB NOTIFY
INOTIFY ACL LIBSELINUX GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE HARFBUZZ M17N_FLT LIBOTF
ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS GTK3 X11 XDBE XIM MODULES THREADS XWIDGETS JSON
PDUMPER LCMS2 GMP
Important settings:
value of $LC_CTYPE: en_US.UTF-8
value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=local
locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
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Subject: |
Re: bug#38551: 27.0.50; [ELPA][PATCH] debbugs: bind to RET rather than return |
Date: |
Tue, 11 Feb 2020 13:11:54 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Kévin Le Gouguec <address@hidden> writes:
Hi Kévin,
>> I will release debbugs 0.22, including this patch, when I have finished
>> my work on bug#37168, adding threading to debbugs for better performance.
>
> And that as well 🙌
Debbugs 0.22 is out, although I didn't find the time yet for
implementing threading. So I close this bug report.
> Thank you for working on this.
Best regards, Michael.
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