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   Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 09:13-0400
   From: Scott McKay <SWM@STONY-BROOK.SCRC.Symbolics.COM>

   I don't think CLIM can reliably detect when you ask for an activation
   character that is the same as an IE command binding, because IE command
   bindings are potentially per-stream and activation gestures are not
   associated with a stream (which you could claim is a problem in itself).

Good problem!  I'm going to ignore it for now.

   I agree that the current behavior is undesirable, but I'm not sure
   exactly what to do about it.  I suspect that the proper thing to do is
   for LOOKUP-INPUT-EDITOR-COMMAND to exit immediately if it finds a
   character that is an activation or "blip" char, and simply not bother
   trying to find an IE command for those.  Does that sound agreeable to
   everyone concerned?

As I said, the input editor already does check for activation
characters (see code excerpt from input-editor.lisp below) and doesn't
even call lookup-input-editor-command if it finds one.  Is this a
local fix or something?

(defmethod interactive-stream-process-gesture ((istream interactive-stream-mixin) gesture type)
  (with-slots (numeric-argument last-command-type command-state) istream
    (cond ((characterp gesture)
	   ;; The COMMAND-STATE slot holds the current IE command aarray,
	   ;; and gets updated when we see a prefix characters (e.g., ESC)
	   #+lucid
	   (when (char= gesture #\return) (setq gesture #\newline))
	   (let ((command (unless (activation-character-p gesture)
			    (lookup-input-editor-command gesture command-state))))
	     (cond ((numberp command)
		    (cond ((null numeric-argument)
	. . .)))))))))

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