From: "Alexander Prähauser 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: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>, 68930@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#68930: 30.0.50; Emacs conflates C-Ω and C-ω
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2024 23:00:53 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r0hqa545.fsf@protonmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86eddq20dx.fsf@gnu.org>
"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> [Please use Reply All to reply, to keep the bug tracker CC'ed.]
>
>> Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2024 16:58:02 +0000
>> From: Alexander Prähauser <ahprae@protonmail.com>
>>
>> "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>>
>> >> Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2024 20:49:26 +0000
>> >> From: Alexander Prähauser via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>> >> the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Emacs confuses C-ω and C-Ω. This seems to happen regardless of the init file.
>> >> For instance, if started with a basic init containing only the lines
>> >>
>> >> (define-key global-map (kbd "C-ω") 'kill-region)
>> >> (define-key global-map (kbd "C-Ω") 'copy-to-register)
>> >>
>> >> the commands are recalled by exactly the reversed key combinations, C-Ω
>> >> kills and C-ω copies to register. Both Ω and ω are here in the xkb-map
>> >> of the keyboard layout as unicode characters, U03A9 and U03C9
>> >> respectively. I tried using C-Ω and C-ω as key combinations for commands
>> >> in the Firefox-plugin Tridactyl to see if it confuses them as well, but
>> >> it seems to be able to distinguish them.
>> >
>> > What does "C-h l" say about what keys Emacs received?
>>
>> It also lists them the wrong way around, so if I type C-ω it lists C-Ω
>> and vice versa.
>
> So are you sure nothing is wrong with your keyboard setup?
>
> Adding Po Lu in case he has some ideas or comments.
Yes, as I said, I tried the same shortcuts with Tridactyl to see if they
would work there, and they did. I've now changed the xkb map to type ω
and Ω through greek_omega and greek_OMEGA and Emacs keeps typing them
normally but switching them up in C-ω and C-Ω keybinds.
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2024-02-04 20:49 bug#68930: 30.0.50; Emacs conflates C-Ω and C-ω Alexander Prähauser via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-02-05 12:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2024-02-05 19:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-05 23:00 ` Alexander Prähauser via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2024-02-06 0:07 ` Alexander Prähauser via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-02-06 4:11 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-02-06 12:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-06 12:57 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-02-06 13:11 ` Alexander Prähauser via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-02-06 13:22 ` Alexander Prähauser via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-02-06 14:16 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-02-06 12:34 ` Alexander Prähauser via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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2024-02-08 12:38 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-02-08 13:00 ` Alexander Prähauser via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-02-08 13:26 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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