From: "Jan D." <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Xfree86 and the Meta key (+patch)
Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2004 14:00:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <C585ACC7-1533-11D9-A2A0-000D93505B76@swipnet.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3zn34cjc4.fsf@fed1.frank-schmitt.net>
>>> The recent XFree86 recently broke the meta key for Emacs.
>>> Some debian Xkb specialist worked on the problem and issued a patch.
>>> It has
>>> been tested and we need to apply it before Debian sarge is release.
>>
>> Are you saying that all releases of Emacs, including 21.3, will
>> not run correctly on current XFree86 ?
>>
>> If that's true, we could be forced to to issue a 21.4 bug fix release
>> (based on 21.3) real soon !?
>
> I run xorg 6.8.1 and don't see any problems.
Me too. But it works only because Emacs does not find a Meta key and
then uses the Alt key as Meta. Thus you can't have both a Meta and an
Alt.
There is no difference between 21.3 and CVS for this problem.
Jan D.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-03 12:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-01 21:00 Xfree86 and the Meta key (+patch) Jérôme Marant
2004-10-02 23:06 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-10-03 7:34 ` Jérôme Marant
2004-10-04 15:18 ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-04 15:55 ` Jérôme Marant
2004-10-05 18:05 ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-05 21:07 ` Jérôme Marant
2004-10-05 21:15 ` Jan D.
2004-10-03 8:11 ` Frank Schmitt
2004-10-03 12:00 ` Jan D. [this message]
2004-10-03 17:54 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-10-03 19:10 ` Jérôme Marant
2004-10-03 21:07 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-10-03 21:52 ` Jan D.
2004-10-03 22:48 ` Andreas Schwab
[not found] <20041003233940.JVGC27821.mxfep02.bredband.com@coolsville.localdomain>
2004-10-03 23:52 ` Andreas Schwab
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-10-04 0:08 Jan D.
2004-10-04 21:30 Denis Barbier
2004-10-04 22:56 ` Jan D.
2004-10-05 5:53 ` Denis Barbier
2004-10-05 10:43 ` Jan D.
2004-10-05 19:50 ` Denis Barbier
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