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From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: tomas@tuxteam.de
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: with-pgtk: C-; turns into plain ';'
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2022 11:56:40 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YguU+H8DiVlM9/Sw@ACM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YgtJ5Qn3EVkQoZJp@tuxteam.de>

Hello, Tomas.

On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 07:36:21 +0100, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 07:43:34PM -0800, T.V Raman wrote:

> > After building from head today with --with-pgtk,

> > I've now lost keys such as C-;, C-, etc under X -- they just produce
> > the key minus the modifier bit, So c-; just generates ";". Bug or intentional?

> Is that the case for C-c, C-x and friends?

> I.e. for "normal" letters?

> Note that TTYs have no way to represent C-; and friends.

But they do.  It just takes a bit of work.  loadkeys is your friend.
I've had C-; on my Linux console for over 20 years, now.  As well as
loadkeys, you need to set up Emacs with stuff in the function-key-map to
handle the modified keys.  It works well.

> You ended up, perhaps, with a TTY build?

> Cheers
> -- 
> t

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).



  reply	other threads:[~2022-02-15 11:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-02-15  3:43 with-pgtk: C-; turns into plain ';' T.V Raman
2022-02-15  4:49 ` Po Lu
2022-02-15 13:41   ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-15 13:45     ` Po Lu
2022-02-15 14:02       ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-15 14:03         ` Po Lu
2022-02-15 14:11           ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-16  0:03             ` Tim Cross
2022-02-16  0:48               ` Po Lu
2022-02-15 23:50         ` Tim Cross
2022-02-16  3:16           ` T.V Raman
2022-02-16  6:19             ` Tim Cross
2022-02-16  7:22               ` Po Lu
2022-02-16 13:11                 ` Tassilo Horn
2022-02-16 13:37                   ` Po Lu
2022-02-16 13:46                     ` Tassilo Horn
2022-02-16 14:01                       ` Po Lu
2022-02-16 17:48                         ` Tassilo Horn
2022-02-17  0:43                           ` Po Lu
2022-02-17  5:40                             ` Tassilo Horn
2022-02-17 15:02                               ` T.V Raman
2022-02-17 17:38                                 ` Tassilo Horn
2022-02-17 19:36                                   ` Eric Abrahamsen
2022-02-17 19:40                                     ` Eric Abrahamsen
2022-02-17 20:07                                       ` Tassilo Horn
2022-02-17 20:00                                     ` Tassilo Horn
2022-02-17 20:10                                       ` Eric Abrahamsen
2022-02-18  0:44                                       ` Po Lu
2022-02-18  3:13                                       ` T.V Raman
2022-02-18  3:25                                         ` Po Lu
2022-02-18 18:13                                           ` T.V Raman
2022-02-19  1:02                                             ` Po Lu
2022-02-19  8:00                                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-19  8:15                                                 ` Po Lu
2022-02-19 15:23                                               ` T.V Raman
2022-02-20  1:01                                                 ` Po Lu
2022-02-20 18:06                                                   ` T.V Raman
2022-02-21 15:46                                                   ` T.V Raman
2022-02-22  1:00                                                     ` Po Lu
2022-02-18  0:42                                 ` Po Lu
2022-02-15 13:46   ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-02-15 13:48     ` Po Lu
2022-02-15  6:36 ` tomas
2022-02-15 11:56   ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2022-02-15 12:33     ` tomas
2022-02-16  0:13       ` Tim Cross
2022-02-15 13:08     ` Modifier keys on ttys (was: with-pgtk: C-; turns into plain ';') Stefan Monnier
2022-02-15 13:35       ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-02-15 14:19         ` Modifier keys on ttys Stefan Monnier

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