Re: Emacs Bug: universal argument & key-translation-map disables undo.

[Xah Lee]

On Apr 10, 11:36 pm, Tassilo Horn <tass...@member.fsf.org> wrote:
> Xah Lee <xah...@gmail.com> writes:
>
> Hi Xah,
>
> > This seems like a bug. Steps to reproduce:
>
> > • Start GNU Emacs 23.2 with “-Q”. (so it doesn't load any custome init
> > files.)
>
> > • Evaluate this: (define-key key-translation-map (kbd "M--") (kbd
> > "─")) (it lets you press 【Alt+-】 to insert a unicode char “BOX
> > DRAWINGS LIGHT HORIZONTAL” (U+2500).)
>
> > • Open a new buffer.
>
> > • Type 【C-u 30 M--】. (insert the char 30 times.)
>
> > • You get this error: universal-argument-other-key: Args out of range:
> > " ─", 0, 7
>
> I can confirm that I get this error with Emacs 23.3.  However, it seems
> to be already fixed in the current bzr trunk.  I'm not sure, but most
> probably that fix has also been applied to the emacs-23 branch, so both
> Emacs 24.1 and Emacs 23.5 should be ok when they are released.
>
> Bye,
> Tassilo

hi Tassilo,

that's interesting. Any idea what's the problem?

 Xah