Re: macosx(carbon): slow keyboard responsiveness bug fix

[William Xu <william.xwl@gmail.com>]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> Could you try and arange for the Mac OS X to work with MULTI_KBOARD?
> It shouldn't be difficult (because even though the generic Emacs code
> then supports multiple keyboards, the Mac OS X part of the code can
> still choose to only create a single keyboard and work the same as
> before).

Hmm, it turns out easy. Just enable it, then works fairly well. :P 

Well, there's one problem. Some special keys become undefined, like tab,
return, esc. Do you have an idea what might cause this? The following is
a workaround for this: 

,----
| (global-set-key (kbd "<return>") (kbd "RET"))
| (global-set-key (kbd "<tab>") (kbd "TAB"))
`----

The patch: 

Index: darwin.h
===================================================================
RCS file: /sources/emacs/emacs/src/s/darwin.h,v
retrieving revision 1.32
diff -u -r1.32 darwin.h
--- darwin.h	11 Sep 2007 01:04:00 -0000	1.32
+++ darwin.h	20 Nov 2007 14:58:52 -0000
@@ -52,10 +52,6 @@
 #define MAC_OS
 /* We need a little extra space, see ../../lisp/loadup.el. */
 #define SYSTEM_PURESIZE_EXTRA 30000
-
-/* XXX The MULTI_KBOARD support does not work yet on this platform. */
-#undef MULTI_KBOARD
-
 #endif
 #endif

-- 
William

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