bug#2057: marked as done (23.0.60; delete key and deletechar)

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Your message dated Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:17:48 -0700 (PDT)
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and subject line Re: bug#2057: 23.0.60; delete key and deletechar
has caused the Emacs bug report #2057,
regarding 23.0.60; delete key and deletechar
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From: Robert Brown <robert.brown@gmail.com>
To: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org
Subject: 23.0.60; delete key and deletechar
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 18:01:26 -0500
Message-ID: <78d2fb3b0901251501q78585866h4856d8d0ca8d3ea6@mail.gmail.com>

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Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

I start Emacs 23.0.60.2 on Ubuntu 8.10 inside a gnome-terminal emulation
window using the command "emacs -q -nw".  The backspace key on my keyboard is
set up to generate ASCII code 127, but Emacs incorrectly maps this code to
deletechar with input-decode-map which is:

    (keymap (127 . [deletechar]) (27 keymap (79 keymap (83 . ....

I believe this input translation is set up by term_get_fkeys_1 in term.c when
it looks at the termcap/terminfo function key definitions for my terminal
type, xterm-color, and sees that the termcap description contains:

    kD=\177

which means that the delete *function* key produces ASCII code 127.

Emacs should look at both kD and kb.  If they are the same ASCII character,
then Emacs should not install a translation in input-decode-map for delete.


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In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu)
 of 2009-01-18 on ugg
configured using `configure  '--without-x'
'--prefix=/local/software/package/emacs-23.0.60.2''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: C
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  value of $LC_TIME: C
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

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From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
To: Robert Brown <brown@google.com>
Cc: 2057-done@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: Re: bug#2057: 23.0.60; delete key and deletechar
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:17:48 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <200904161817.n3GIHmJn015568@godzilla.ics.uci.edu>

Robert Brown <brown@google.com> writes:

  > Dan Nicolaescu writes:
  >  > Robert Brown <brown@google.com> writes:
  >  > 
  >  >   > I believe the following patch may be the right fix for bug 2057.  When
  >  >   > looking at the key sequences generated by function keys, Emacs should only
  >  >   > register those that generate two or more ASCII characters.
  >  >   > 
  >  >   > My termcap entry, xterm-color, contains "kD=\177", which means that the
  >  >   > delete *function* key generates code 177.
  >  > 
  >  > Interesting, it seems that you have a modified termcap database, the normal one
  >  > has kD=\E[3~ for xterm-color.
  > 
  > Yes, it's definitely a bug in the termcap entry.  Hitting the delete
  > function key generates \E[3~ for me.  I can fix the termcap.
  > 
  >  > Can you try setting TERM to xterm-256color and see if that the delete
  >  > key works better then?
  > 
  > Switching to a different termcap works well.

OK, so it's not an emacs bug, closing this then.

  > I still think it may incorrect for Emacs to map single character function
  > key sequences.  But perhaps these just never occur in practice.

Given that we don't have a positive proof that it causes a problem,
there doesn't seem to be a good reason to change code that has been
around for such a long time.