keypad.el wierdness in CVS emacs?

keypad.el wierdness in CVS emacs?

[Robert Mecklenburg]

I'm running a recent cvs emacs and the keypad keys act strangely when
shifted:

C-h c                 ;; describe key
<S-kp-7>              ;; shifted kp-7
7 (translated from <S-kp-7>) runs the command self-insert-command

Shifted keypad 7 (and other keypad keys) yields ascii 7 instead 
of the S-kp-7 I would expect.  I discovered in the NEWS a new package
keypad.el that seems to have some effect on this and reset the
customized variables:

 '(keypad-numlock-shifted-setup (quote none) nil (keypad))
 '(keypad-shifted-setup (quote none) nil (keypad))

But this seems to have no effect.  How can I get my keypad keys back?

Thanks,
Robert

Re: keypad.el wierdness in CVS emacs?

[Kevin Rodgers]

Robert Mecklenburg wrote:
 > I'm running a recent cvs emacs and the keypad keys act strangely when
 > shifted:
 >
 > C-h c                 ;; describe key
 > <S-kp-7>              ;; shifted kp-7
 > 7 (translated from <S-kp-7>) runs the command self-insert-command

Good old emacs-21.3 -q --no-site-file (i386-pc-solaris2.7, X toolkit)
displays

	<home> runs the command beginning-of-line

and `C-h l' displays

	C-h c <S-kp-7> <help-echo> C-h l

Perhaps you should report a bug to the appropriate list via
M-x report-emacs-bug.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers

Re: keypad.el wierdness in CVS emacs?

[Stefan Monnier]

> I'm running a recent cvs emacs and the keypad keys act strangely when

Can you people send things to the right place as explained in INSTALL.CVS?


        Stefan

Re: keypad.el wierdness in CVS emacs?

[Kai Grossjohann]

mecklen@realmsys.com (Robert Mecklenburg) writes:

> I'm running a recent cvs emacs and the keypad keys act strangely when
> shifted:
>
> C-h c                 ;; describe key
> <S-kp-7>              ;; shifted kp-7
> 7 (translated from <S-kp-7>) runs the command self-insert-command

If there is no binding for S-<foo> where <foo> is a function key, then
Emacs will use the binding for <foo> instead.

This means that just doing

(global-set-key (kbd "S-<kp-7>") 'forward-char)

will change what C-h c S-<kp-7> will do!

Why does Emacs do such strange things?  So that people can hit C-f
even if CapsLock is on.

Kai