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bug#835: 23.0.60; Quick calc is quietly disabled in view-mode
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Chong Yidong |
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bug#835: 23.0.60; Quick calc is quietly disabled in view-mode |
Date: |
Mon, 01 Sep 2008 17:50:58 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2.91 (gnu/linux) |
martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at> writes:
>> ! (define-key map (char-to-string (- (car x) ?a -1)) (cdr x)))
> [...]
>> ! (define-key map (upcase (char-to-string (car x))) (cdr x)))
>
>> What the original code does is the following: for a character such as
>> "n", it adds "C-n" to the keymap as well (it's a hack that relies on
>> the specific properties of the ASCII table, and needs at least a
>> comment). That's not what the patched code does: it adds "N" to the
>> keymap. Martin, what's the reason for this change?
>
> That was my intention: AFAICT `view-mode' took `Q' (and, for example,
> `E') away from calc and I simply tried to give it back to calc. But
> maybe this part of the code really intended to add a "C-" ...
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.)
I suppose this means we have to find a separate fix for the original
bug...