From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: xterm.el Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2007 13:30:59 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1175968221 8521 80.91.229.12 (7 Apr 2007 17:50:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2007 17:50:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se (Johan =?utf-8?Q?Bockg=C3=A5rd?=) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 07 19:49:24 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HaEn4-0006kL-03 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Apr 2007 19:33:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HaEqf-0008WA-Ut for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Apr 2007 13:37:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HaEqZ-0008Op-64 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Apr 2007 13:37:07 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HaEqY-0008NI-9T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Apr 2007 13:37:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HaEqX-0008Mz-VE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Apr 2007 13:37:06 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HaEmv-0001d8-8H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Apr 2007 13:33:21 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HaEkd-0007O2-VC; Sat, 07 Apr 2007 13:30:59 -0400 In-reply-to: (bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:69171 Archived-At: (info "(elisp)Ctl-Char Syntax") For historical reasons, Emacs treats the character as the control equivalent of `?': ?\^? => 127 ?\C-? => 127 As a result, it is currently not possible to represent the character `Control-?', which is a meaningful input character under X, using `\C-'. It is not easy to change this, as various Lisp files refer to in this way. Let's add a comment at those places referring to this. Would someone please install this change?