From: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>
To: Stefan Kamphausen <skampi@gmx.net>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: AltGr with Emacs 23 on OSX and German keyboard
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:47:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2B9E3FA0-49C6-4F2F-AC0E-96D4F6B07041@Web.DE> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d43k2ew1.fsf@usenet.my.skamphausen.de>
Am 15.11.2009 um 12:42 schrieb Stefan Kamphausen:
> #!/bin/sh
>
> test -x "$emacs" ||
> emacs="$HOME/local/opt/emacs-23.1/nextstep/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/
> Emacs"
> test -x "$emacs" || emacs="/usr/bin/emacs"
>
> exec "$emacs" ${SSH_CONNECTION:+-nw} ${SCREEN_IN_SSH:+-nw} "$@"
For me Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs has problems to interpret and
receive all command line arguments...
> In GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i386-apple-darwin9.7.0, NS apple-appkit-949.46)
> of 2009-08-02 on imac
> Windowing system distributor `Apple', version 10.3.949
> configured using `configure '--with-ns''
>> is this Help menu in Emacs' frame or in the menu bar? The X
>> clients
>> can't "delegate" the menu-bar...
>
> It's in the menu bar, just like a native OSX application.
So it's the Aqua or NS or GNUStep/OPENSTEP "Emacs.app."
>
> If I hit AltGr-Backspace and do the C-h l afterwards I see:
> M-(sharp s) C-h l
> (I can't insert the real sharp s in this emacs, I currently use to
> type
> this post, but it is displayed as a "normal" sharp-s in the help
> buffer).
Have you tried Character Palette (Zeichenpalette)?
>
> Another thing I noted: the described behavior occurs with that
> keyboard
> layout I loaded from the net as well as with the original osx
> layout. I
> toggle those using a little icon in the menubar and applications like
> e.g. the terminal that shipped with this computer reflect the changes
> immediately: with the original layout I see a question mark upside-
> down
> if I hit AltGr-Backslash but with the custom layout I get a backslash.
> Funny, that makes no difference in Emacs.
>
> xev didn't help either.
Exactly. Xev and X11 are not Aqua.
> Is this considered a bug, shall I sent that report?
If, then to Apple. It's obviously Mac OS X which does not produce the
proper key events and has no idea of the "modifiers" of your
keyboard. But it's also Emacs.app which has problems with keys of non-
English keyboards.
--
Mit friedvollen Grüßen
Pete
We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
– Buck Henry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-15 12:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-13 9:06 AltGr with Emacs 23 on OSX and German keyboard Stefan Kamphausen
2009-11-13 10:09 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.10632.1258107023.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-11-13 10:27 ` Stefan Kamphausen
2009-11-13 14:18 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.10641.1258122071.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-11-13 14:28 ` Stefan Kamphausen
2009-11-15 11:42 ` Stefan Kamphausen
2009-11-15 12:47 ` Peter Dyballa [this message]
2009-11-14 8:16 ` Stefan Monnier
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