bug#13599: 24.2; (max-char) is too low (and hard to change)

[Magnar Sveen]

Thanks for the quick response!

Eli Zaretskii writes:

>> Doing a M-: (read-char) s-8 gives me the key value of 8388664.
>
> Which is 800038 in hex.  Rings any bells?  (Hint: 38 hex is the digit
> 8.)

That makes sense, thanks.

> Your s-8 is a character with a modifier.  max-char returns the max
> value of a character, excluding any modifiers.  So that value has
> nothing to do with your difficulties in binding s-8 to insert [.
> Something entirely different is at work here, probably some problem in
> the code that you used to do the key binding.  But since you didn't
> show that code, it's hard to help you.

I did show the code:

    (keyboard-translate 8388664 ?\[)

I also tried

    (keyboard-translate ?\s-8 ?\[)

which of course is the same thing. They both fail at (characterp).

In my flailing, I also tried

    (keyboard-translate (kbd "s-8") ?\[)

No success with that one. Checking that I was not totally off, I tried

    (keyboard-translate ?\C-h ?\[)

which did work, while

    (keyboard-translate ?\C-8 ?\[)

did not. Not a character again. So it's not only super.

>> So, is this a bug?

> No.

Fair enough.

Any tips on how to actually translate keys where read-char returns a
value including the modifier then?

- Magnar