M-{ has no effect using Spanish PC keyboards

M-{ has no effect using Spanish PC keyboards

[Roberto Rodríguez]

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Hi, I've been using GNU Emacs for years now and always noticed that the M-{
key (backward-paragraph) is always dead when using Spanish layout keyboards.
I've checked it in different PC's, with different keyboard models (all with
standard Spanish layout), running Emacs 21.3.1 on Windows XP or Emacs
21.4.1on  GNU/Linux.
Typing M-{ in Text Mode, does nothing.
Typing M-x describe-key M-{, does nothing.
Binding M-{ explicitly, does nothing.
ESC { works fine.
M-[ bound to backward-paragraph works fine,

You type M-{ by pressing Alt+Alt Gr+' , perhaps an unexisting key?
But C-M-\ (indent-region), which involves typing Ctrl+Alt+Alt Gr+º works
just fine, as the other weird keys do.

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Re: M-{ has no effect using Spanish PC keyboards

[Roberto Rodríguez]

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2006/9/14, Roberto Rodríguez <lanubeblanca@googlemail.com>:

> Binding M-{ explicitly, does nothing.
>


I mean,  binding  does work, but it doesn't solve the problem.

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Re: M-{ has no effect using Spanish PC keyboards

[Roberto Rodríguez]

On Fri, 15 Sep 2006 18:57:08 -0400
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:

>     There's no response at all. It continues prompting for a key.
> 
> Then the problem is not in Emacs.  It is not receiving the character.
> 
> If you figure out why, please tell me, and we can put it in
> etc/PROBLEMS.  (It might already be in etc/PROBLEMS; please look.)

In effect, Emacs isn't receving the character. This particular keychord on this keyboard type (105 keys PC keyboard) doesn't produce an event, as reported by xev on X.

It's the only invalid keychord that falls upon a default Emacs binding in my setup, but you can expect similar difficulties in other non-US layouts.