From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
To: Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>
Cc: 5785@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#5785: 24.0.50; Fail to bind C-. in emacs -nw from xterm.
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 16:42:03 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201003262342.o2QNg346029595@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87eij665zz.fsf@tux.homenetwork> (Thierry Volpiatto's message of "Sat, 27 Mar 2010 00:02:56 +0100")
Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com> writes:
> Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu> writes:
>
> > Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > > I am unable to bind C-. in xterm.
> > >
> > > A)
> > >
> > > 1) I start xterm without my config of .Xdefaults.
> >
> > Can you please show the results of
> > xrdb -q | grep -i xterm
> >
> > at this point?
> Nothing (i have no .Xressources)
>
> > Do you have any .Xdefaults settings for emacs?
> > Can you please disable those too and verify that
> > xrdb -q | grep -i emacs
> > doesn't print anything?
> Nothing.
>
> > > 2) In scratch i write and eval:
> >
> > Please use
> > emacs -Q -nw
> >
> > for this step
> >
> > > (global-set-key (kbd "C-.") #'(lambda () (interactive) (message "hello")))
> > >
> > > 3) When i hit C-. "~" is printed in buffer (*scratch*).
> > >
> > > B)
> > >
> > > If i bind the same key (C-.) in a function that use the minibuffer,
> > > (define-key anything-map (kbd "C-.") 'anything-find-files-down-one-level)
> > >
> > > then,
> > > 27;6;46~ is printed in anything prompt.
> > >
> > > NOTE:
> > > ----
> > > Also,
> > > Alt doesn't work in emacs without proper Xterm config in .Xdefault:
> > > XTerm*metaSendsEscape: True
> >
> > This is a sign that something might be wrong in your setup, it should
> > work by default.
> Maybe, i don't use much Xterm, my favorite is urxvt.
> But urxvt handle M-( correctly by default (No config).
> So same test as above in same conditions work fine in urxvt and not in
> Xterm.
> So if it was my setting at system level, it should fail also with urxvt.
Why would it?
Another question: does M-a M-b M-f work in the shell in xterm?
Do you have some non-standard TERM or TERMINFO settings?
Was your xterm compiled in some different way?
What OS are you using?
> > > Important settings:
> > > value of $LC_ALL: C
> > > value of $LC_COLLATE: C
> > > value of $LC_CTYPE: fr_FR.UTF-8
> > > value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
> > > value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
> > > value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
> > > value of $LC_TIME: nil
> > > value of $LANG: fr_FR.UTF-8
> > > value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
> > > locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
> > > default enable-multibyte-characters: t
> >
> > I don't know much about LANG stuff, but is it OK to have LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 and LC_ALL=C?
>
> It's not a problem, LC_ALL=C is set locally in Emacs with setenv to
> avoid other bug with shell prompts in Emacs, but that's another problem.
> Anyway when set, LC_ALL overhide all other locale setting.
> OTOH LANG set all to it's value but allow setting other variables.
> So in emacs (no emacs -Q), my locale is:
> ,----
> | LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
> | LC_CTYPE="C"
> | LC_NUMERIC="C"
> | LC_TIME="C"
> | LC_COLLATE="C"
> | LC_MONETARY="C"
> | LC_MESSAGES="C"
> | LC_PAPER="C"
> | LC_NAME="C"
> | LC_ADDRESS="C"
> | LC_TELEPHONE="C"
> | LC_MEASUREMENT="C"
> | LC_IDENTIFICATION="C"
> | LC_ALL=C
> `----
>
> But when i start emacs -Q, my locale are all utf-8
> except LC_COLLATE for US sorting, that' my system settings.
>
> ,----
> | LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
> | LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8
> | LC_NUMERIC="fr_FR.UTF-8"
> | LC_TIME="fr_FR.UTF-8"
> | LC_COLLATE=C
> | LC_MONETARY="fr_FR.UTF-8"
> | LC_MESSAGES="fr_FR.UTF-8"
> | LC_PAPER="fr_FR.UTF-8"
> | LC_NAME="fr_FR.UTF-8"
> | LC_ADDRESS="fr_FR.UTF-8"
> | LC_TELEPHONE="fr_FR.UTF-8"
> | LC_MEASUREMENT="fr_FR.UTF-8"
> | LC_IDENTIFICATION="fr_FR.UTF-8"
> | LC_ALL=
> `----
>
> So when testing emacs -Q -nw in Xterm i have these locales.
> And no .Xdefaults or .Xressources.
>
> > Maybe there's a problem with the way your keyboard is set up? Maybe
> > someone that knows about french keyboards can help...
> So i think my keyboard config is ok.
>
> > > Load-path shadows:
>
> [...]
>
> > > /home/thierry/elisp/ngnus/lisp/smiley hides /usr/share/emacs/24.0.50/lisp/gnus/smiley
> > > /home/thierry/elisp/ngnus/lisp/score-mode hides /usr/share/emacs/24.0.50/lisp/gnus/score-mode
> > > /home/thierry/elisp/ngnus/lisp/gnus-start hides /usr/share/emacs/24.0.50/lisp/gnus/gnus-start
> > > /home/thierry/elisp/emms/lisp/tq hides /usr/share/emacs/24.0.50/lisp/emacs-lisp/tq
> > > /home/thierry/elisp/ngnus/lisp/time-date hides /usr/share/emacs/24.0.50/lisp/calendar/time-date
> > > /home/thierry/elisp/ngnus/lisp/parse-time hides /usr/share/emacs/24.0.50/lisp/calendar/parse-time
> >
> > These are no good. Do all these go away if you use emacs -Q -nw ?
> Yes that's ngnus, it is not enabled in emacs -Q. That's remind me to
> disable it and use emacs gnus.
>
> --
> Thierry Volpiatto
> Gpg key: http://pgp.mit.edu/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-26 23:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-26 18:44 bug#5785: 24.0.50; Fail to bind C-. in emacs -nw from xterm Thierry Volpiatto
2010-03-26 20:17 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2010-03-26 23:02 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2010-03-26 23:42 ` Dan Nicolaescu [this message]
2010-03-27 6:57 ` Thierry Volpiatto
[not found] ` <201003291913.o2TJDsJ9003980@godzilla.ics.uci.edu>
2010-03-29 19:22 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2019-09-15 15:55 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-10-14 12:27 ` Stefan Kangas
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