From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dieter Wilhelm Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: German keyboard event bug on debian 4.0? [was: Key sequence M-} is not working] Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 19:02:15 +0200 Organization: The Church of Emacs Message-ID: <871wepzuy0.fsf_-_@debby.local.net> References: <878x8zyuln.fsf@debby.local.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1185814928 13903 80.91.229.12 (30 Jul 2007 17:02:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 17:02:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Arjen Wiersma Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 30 19:02:01 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IFYd4-0000LP-0o for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Jul 2007 19:01:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IFYd3-0008N5-PJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Jul 2007 13:01:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IFYco-0008N0-M1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Jul 2007 13:01:42 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IFYcm-0008Mo-R4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Jul 2007 13:01:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IFYcm-0008Ml-My for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Jul 2007 13:01:40 -0400 Original-Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.179]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IFYcl-0005GT-V6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Jul 2007 13:01:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [89.13.95.229] (helo=debby.local.net) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu6) with ESMTP (Nemesis), id 0ML29c-1IFYcT0HpL-0007Rm; Mon, 30 Jul 2007 19:01:24 +0200 Original-Received: from dieter by debby.local.net with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1IFYdL-0003Ik-Sr; Mon, 30 Jul 2007 19:02:15 +0200 In-Reply-To: <878x8zyuln.fsf@debby.local.net> (Dieter Wilhelm's message of "Sun\, 29 Jul 2007 19\:42\:44 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18y67wOY38h+MNH4f2pHSF5pBt+Yvq4N123IzK BQN5qbyeKSPTFACYzr78GKtipjlGi/rU249N4uYw2f/JDhZY+u 7OLqKj+0I4wrVty0LtUFou+9I76dDf9 X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:46200 Archived-At: Dieter Wilhelm writes: > > True, but how and what is intercepting M-}. Could you please point to > some tools which show me what's going on here. I remember vaguely > some X utilities which are supposed to show the key sequence which one > is typing. I found the tool xev and it shows (below on an aterm) that there is no "}" event when typing ALT + AltGr and }. I think I have to ask some debian mailing list. for M-{ (ALT + AltGr + {) it is working: KeyPress event, serial 30, synthetic NO, window 0x1c00001, root 0x63, subw 0x0, time 403204309, (-125,390), root:(466,410), state 0x0, keycode 64 (keysym 0xffe9, Alt_L), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes: XFilterEvent returns: False KeyPress event, serial 30, synthetic NO, window 0x1c00001, root 0x63, subw 0x0, time 403205217, (-125,390), root:(466,410), state 0x8, keycode 113 (keysym 0xfe03, ISO_Level3_Shift), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes: XFilterEvent returns: False KeyPress event, serial 30, synthetic NO, window 0x1c00001, root 0x63, subw 0x0, time 403208093, (-125,390), root:(466,410), state 0x88, keycode 16 (keysym 0x7b, braceleft), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (7b) "{" XmbLookupString gives 1 bytes: (7b) "{" XFilterEvent returns: False ------------------------------ not so for M-} (ALT + AltGr + }): KeyPress event, serial 30, synthetic NO, window 0x1c00001, root 0x63, subw 0x0, time 403316166, (-235,391), root:(356,411), state 0x0, keycode 64 (keysym 0xffe9, Alt_L), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes: XFilterEvent returns: False KeyPress event, serial 30, synthetic NO, window 0x1c00001, root 0x63, subw 0x0, time 403316752, (-235,391), root:(356,411), state 0x8, keycode 113 (keysym 0xfe03, ISO_Level3_Shift), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes: XFilterEvent returns: False -- Best wishes H. Dieter Wilhelm Darmstadt, Germany