From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Cecil Westerhof Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: does not work anymore Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 19:34:01 +0100 Organization: Decebal Computing Message-ID: <87r3sw3dnq.fsf@Equus.decebal.nl> References: <8761afnoh3.fsf@Equus.decebal.nl> <87oao7w0te.fsf@Equus.decebal.nl> <87sidjf0xw.fsf@debian.uxu> <87bnk6wug2.fsf@Equus.decebal.nl> <03b6df78-35f2-4689-a443-84879a50ece9@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1426013723 3171 80.91.229.3 (10 Mar 2015 18:55:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 18:55:23 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 10 19:55:23 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 1YVPJK-0007LF-DD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Mar 2015 19:55:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50978 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YVPJJ-00089x-DA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Mar 2015 14:55:21 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!newsfeed.neostrada.pl!unt-exc-02.news.neostrada.pl!plix.pl!newsfeed2.plix.pl!feed.xsnews.nl!border02.ams.xsnews.nl!feeder04.ams.xsnews.nl!feeder03.ams.xsnews.nl!abp001.ams.xsnews.nl!frontend-F10-15.ams.news.kpn.nl Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Face: "(y8cC@tg_12{">GF'UXTW]FHI2wMiZNrnf'1EFQ&O#$m:f#O7+7}kR,v+Pti8=Vi/Z"g^?b"E X-Homepage: http://www.decebal.nl/ User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:wV8f+adPJtAm+29Fgza/LYmjL+0= Original-Lines: 60 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 77.171.42.144 Original-X-Trace: 1426013016 news.kpn.nl 21080 77.171.42.144@kpn/77.171.42.144:55803 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:210821 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:103100 Archived-At: Op Friday 6 Mar 2015 10:33 CET schreef Rusi: > 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: >> >>> Cecil Westerhof writes: >>> >>>>> In my .xmodmap I have: keycode 135 = 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) >>> ; ... >> >> 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/2Xfa1ce2LlMJ That solved the problem (I think, because in the thread is said it works sometimes). But two things: - It started happening when I upgrade my Linux version. - For root (where I do not have this problem) XMODIFIERS is not defined. So I now use: /usr/bin/env -u XMODIFIERS /usr/bin/emacs -- Cecil Westerhof Senior Software Engineer LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof