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Re: ucs-insert no longer working
From: |
Sven Bretfeld |
Subject: |
Re: ucs-insert no longer working |
Date: |
16 Apr 2013 09:38:06 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) |
Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> writes:
> On 2013-04-14 22:49 +0200, Sven Bretfeld wrote:
>
>> After today's update to Emacs 24.3.1 on Ubuntu 12.10 the following is no
>> longer working:
>>
>> (defun insert-lang-a ()
>> (interactive)
>> (ucs-insert "0101"))
>> (global-set-key "\M-aa" 'insert-lang-a)
>>
>> Debug-on-error gives:
>>
>> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument characterp "0101")
>> insert-char("0101")
>> insert-lang-a()
>> call-interactively(insert-lang-a nil nil)
>>
>> Replacing "ucs-insert" by "insert-char" doesn't help.
>
> Obviously not, since the latter is just an alias to the former in Emacs
> 24.3.
>
>> Calling ucs-insert
>> manually with M-x works however. What strange bug is that?
>
> I don't know if your syntax was ever supposed to work, but you should
> use (ucs-insert #x0101) instead to make clear that it's a hexadecimal
> code point you're inserting.
>
> Cheers,
> Sven
Hello
Strangely enough it was working for years. Also with Emacs 24. Only the
most recent update seemingly became intolerant to this mistake. Thank
you very much. Now its working again.
Sven