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From: Po Lu via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: larsi@gnus.org, stefan@marxist.se, 56117@debbugs.gnu.org,
	qsx@chaotikum.eu
Subject: bug#56117: 29.0.50; pgtk does not distinguish between <kp-separator> and "."/","
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2022 18:02:35 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bkujhf44.fsf@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83tu8bemk9.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 23 Jun 2022 12:49:58 +0300")

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> And there's absolutely no way for Emacs to get at the original keys?

It can by turning the input method off, but as a result any features
provided by them will no longer work.

Most users prefer working input methods to those few rare keys, so it is
on by default.

> Or for users to configure their systems so as to work around this
> "swallowing"?  I have hard time believing that no one has discovered
> any workarounds for this misfeature.

I feel the same way, but didn't find anything.

> Can those system input methods be easily toggled, which would allow to
> disable them temporarily, just for the period of time the kp-* keys
> are needed?

No, we don't have such a feature yet.  But it would be possible to
implement it.





  reply	other threads:[~2022-06-23 10:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-06-20 23:02 bug#56117: 29.0.50; pgtk does not distinguish between <kp-separator> and "."/"," Thomas Schneider
2022-06-21  2:00 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-06-22 20:44   ` Stefan Kangas
2022-06-23  0:44     ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-06-23  7:51       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-23  8:16         ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-06-23  8:28           ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-23  8:40             ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-06-23  9:49               ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-23 10:02                 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2022-06-23 10:19                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-23 11:37                     ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-06-23 13:00                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-24  5:58                   ` Kévin Le Gouguec
2022-06-24 16:43                     ` Kévin Le Gouguec

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