From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rusi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: does not work anymore Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 01:33:27 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <03b6df78-35f2-4689-a443-84879a50ece9@googlegroups.com> References: <8761afnoh3.fsf@Equus.decebal.nl> <87oao7w0te.fsf@Equus.decebal.nl> <87sidjf0xw.fsf@debian.uxu> <87bnk6wug2.fsf@Equus.decebal.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1425634573 5965 80.91.229.3 (6 Mar 2015 09:36:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 09:36:13 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 06 10:36:12 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YTofq-0002oZ-HU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Mar 2015 10:36:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57047 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YTofp-00040U-T0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Mar 2015 04:36:01 -0500 X-Received: by 10.50.26.40 with SMTP id i8mr15838847igg.8.1425634407899; Fri, 06 Mar 2015 01:33:27 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.50.60.71 with SMTP id f7mr747428igr.10.1425634407888; Fri, 06 Mar 2015 01:33:27 -0800 (PST) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!hl2no5514914igb.0!news-out.google.com!db6ni44602igc.0!nntp.google.com!hl2no4019842igb.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: <87bnk6wug2.fsf@Equus.decebal.nl> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=117.195.62.194; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 117.195.62.194 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2015 09:33:27 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:210763 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:103042 Archived-At: On Friday, March 6, 2015 at 11:36:03 AM UTC+5:30, Cecil Westerhof wrote: > Op Friday 6 Mar 2015 01:02 CET schreef Emanuel Berg: >=20 > > Cecil Westerhof writes: > > > >>> In my .xmodmap I have: keycode 135 =3D Multi_key With > >>> this I could always use the menu-key followed by > >>> two spaces to get a non-break space. In other > >>> programs it still works like this, but in Emacs I > >>> get now: is undefined What is happening > >>> here? > >> > >> The interesting bid is that in Emacs with root it > >> still works. > > > > Did you modify the keymap for the root user as well? > > > > If Emacs says " is undefined" then it > > should be easy enough to solve this, just define > > (bind) it to do whatever you want. If you want it to > > be a key sequence probably you need to make it a > > "prefix key" as well, as in: > > > > ; step 1 - name > > (define-prefix-command 'C-o-prefix) > > > > ; step 2 - bind > > (global-set-key "\C-o" 'C-o-prefix) > > > > ; step 3 - normal usage as you would any key > > (global-set-key "\C-\M-j" 'scroll-left-1) > > ; ... >=20 > It has nothing to do with Emacs: it is done with xmodmap, so it is an > X binding not an Emacs binding. This is something I defined years ago > (globally, so for normal user and root user) and always worked. I did > not change anything in .xnodmap or in .emacs. So this should not be > happening, but it is. Specific: May be related to this issue See thread https://groups.google.com/d/msg/gnu.emacs.help/hBA42H2chGM/2Xfa1= ce2LlMJ More generic: Xmodmap is considered obsolete and increasingly more borked. In 2015 you are supposed to use setxkbmap=B9 $ setxkbmap -query will tell you current state $ setxkbmap -option compose:menu will give you what you want =B9 I did not say its better; just not obsolete like xmodmap