From: Po Lu via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Ami Fischman <ami@fischman.org>
Cc: 66765@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#66765: closed (Re: bug#66765: 30.0.50; Building emacs with xinput2 breaks receiving XSendEvent events)
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2023 08:43:07 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <s0dh6ma9s2s.fsf@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGKqTXUWhXJ7WphEOkSmrz9Zbq_vq8YOEa09hJDA5Sg9g9kkdg@mail.gmail.com> (Ami Fischman's message of "Sat, 28 Oct 2023 10:52:49 -0700")
Ami Fischman <ami@fischman.org> writes:
> Stepping back a bit from the specifics of Emacs and ratpoison, naively
> it seems unfortunate that X11 programs that have been working for
> decades should need to be modified to use similar-but-different APIs.
> Do you know whether the XInput2 people are aware of / at peace with
> this limitation, or is this something worth bringing up with them?
It's an immemorial and largely intentional design decision. Core events
lack too much information for their transformation into extension events
to be possible.
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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-10-26 17:49 bug#66765: 30.0.50; Building emacs with xinput2 breaks receiving XSendEvent events Ami Fischman
2023-10-27 0:32 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-10-27 6:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-27 7:03 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-10-27 7:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-27 7:38 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-10-27 10:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-27 10:34 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-10-27 10:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-27 10:57 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-04 8:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-04 10:25 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-11-04 11:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <handler.66765.D66765.169836681613748.notifdone@debbugs.gnu.org>
2023-10-27 17:37 ` bug#66765: closed (Re: bug#66765: 30.0.50; Building emacs with xinput2 breaks receiving XSendEvent events) Ami Fischman
2023-10-28 0:36 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-10-28 17:26 ` Ami Fischman
2023-10-28 17:52 ` Ami Fischman
2023-10-29 0:43 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
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