Re: 1.3a1 - (Was: Re: Where's Ben?)
Re: 1.3a1 - (Was: Re: Where's Ben?)
- Subject: Re: 1.3a1 - (Was: Re: Where's Ben?)
- From: Ben Byer <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 06:05:52 -0800
On Nov 20, 2007, at 3:08 AM, Martin Costabel wrote:
Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
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This release:
Disables ALT_IS_MODE_SWITCH
I hope you are aware of the fact that this is really a "US vs the
rest of the world" issue?
For years, I had to keep a ~/.Xmodmap file containing the line
keycode 66 = Mode_switch
On Leopard, for the first time, I didn't need it.
Now with your new release, it's back to square one :-(
I don't even use a French keyboard where this would be an absolutely
vital issue, because characters like \|[]{} cannot be typed without
the Alt key acting as Mode_switch. I use an ("international") US
keyboard, but I sometimes have to type accented characters or
umlauts, and for these I need Alt acting as Mode_switch.
No, I wasn't aware -- I thought I saw someone say that Leopard still
needed that Xmodmap file, and my changing the default was an
experiment to see if that would make that not necessary. So, I was
exactly wrong, in which case we can put it back.
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.
It'd be neat to figure out a way to get rid of this.
--
Ben Byer
CoreOS / BSD Technology Group, XDarwin maintainer
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