Re: 1.3a1

On Nov 20, 2007, at 7:19 PM, Ben Byer <email@hidden>

The one thing that changing that default did was get rid of this
Xemacs warning:

(2) (key-mapping/warning)
The meanings of the modifier bits Mod1 through Mod5 are determined
by the keysyms used to control those bits. Mod1 does NOT always
mean Meta, although some non-ICCCM-compliant programs assume that.

(3) (key-mapping/warning)
Two distinct modifier keys (such as Meta and Hyper) cannot generate
the same modifier bit, because Emacs won't be able to tell which
modifier was actually held down when some other key is pressed. It
won't be able to tell Meta-x and Hyper-x apart, for example. Change
one of these keys to use some other modifier bit. If you intend for
these keys to have the same behavior, then change them to have the
same keysym as well as the same modifier bit.

(4) (key-mapping/warning) XEmacs: Mod1 is being used for both
Mode_switch and Alt.

As a heavy user of XEmacs, I would urge you to go back to the previous setting (Mod_switch assigned to the Alt key). The reason is that with the present setting it is impossible to type characters like "\ " (essential for TeX users like me) on a foreign keyboard. It is true that the previous setting caused those warnings, but they were totally harmless. In any case, with Tiger's X11 I didn't have either the warnings nor the impossibility of typing characters like "\" (on a Spanish keyboard), so there should be a way of getting rid of both.