From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Display of undisplayable characters: \U01F3A8 instead of diamond Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2022 16:14:01 +0000 Message-ID: References: <83tu5wy7jb.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="22472"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: Eli Zaretskii , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Gregory Heytings Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 28 18:14:44 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oSKvs-0005ir-43 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 28 Aug 2022 18:14:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50108 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oSKvq-0005ZJ-NW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 28 Aug 2022 12:14:42 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:52314) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oSKvI-0004uR-P3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Aug 2022 12:14:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.muc.de ([193.149.48.3]:22438) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oSKvF-0001jl-F8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Aug 2022 12:14:08 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 4609 invoked by uid 3782); 28 Aug 2022 18:14:02 +0200 Original-Received: from acm.muc.de (p2e5d5a4e.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [46.93.90.78]) (using STARTTLS) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Sun, 28 Aug 2022 18:14:02 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 13498 invoked by uid 1000); 28 Aug 2022 16:14:01 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Submission-Agent: TMDA/1.3.x (Ph3nix) X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de Received-SPF: pass client-ip=193.149.48.3; envelope-from=acm@muc.de; helo=mail.muc.de X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:294257 Archived-At: Hello, Gregory. On Sun, Aug 28, 2022 at 15:46:23 +0000, Gregory Heytings wrote: > > In my copy of fbterm C-M-e aborts the fbterm session without saving > > anything. C-M-c and C-M-d are similarly stolen, making this version of > > fbterm unusable for Emacs. > That means either that you're running fbterm and Emacs as root, or that > fbterm is installed with a setuid bit or has the SYS_TTY_CONFIG > capability, which you can remove (see upthread). All these reservations surely need to go into your entry in the PROBLEMS file. People run Emacs as root, e.g. for editing configuration files. Do we really expect users to be able to flip setuid bits, or remove SYS_TTY_CONFIG capability? Myself, I don't even know what the second of these means, though I will examine the thread to try and find out. > > Have you tried these key combinations? Do they really get through to > > Emacs on your system? > Yes I tried, and yes they did. I've been using fbterm for quite some time > in fact (but unlike you I don't use the console most of the time). OK. There remains the mystery of why M-: (tty-type) returns "linux" on your system, but "fbterm" on mine. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).