From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: cut and paste hazard
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 15:19:08 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1B1We4-0001on-GW@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040305221959.21034.qmail@brouhaha.com> (message from Paul Rubin on 5 Mar 2004 22:19:59 -0000)
It turned out that because the Spanish guy's name contained an
accented character, Emacs interpreted the 8-bit code for that
character as an editing command with the Meta key set.
Emacs running on a terminal interprets character codes 128-255
as meta keys; it always has. Is there any way to distinguish
Latin-1 text from meta characters when using an xterm?
If Emacs is running in an X window, it
should accept 8-bit typein as normal text, and require actual meta key
events to set off editing commands (I don't know if it does this).
Emacs already does this, when using its own window.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-11 20:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-05 22:19 cut and paste hazard Paul Rubin
2004-03-10 9:21 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-03-11 20:19 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
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