On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 09:00 +0100, Jérôme Marant wrote:
> Quoting Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>
> > > What exactly is ISO_Level3_Shift?
> >
> > I use it to obtain additional symbols, I map it to the left "Alt" key
> > (which I don't map to Alt of course), that's how MacOS obtains the
> > |,{,},etc... on intl keyboards (read: non-us).
> >
> > It sort-of is the "new" way to do it instead of switching groups with
> > Mode_switch. A bunch of intl keymaps are supposed to use it nowadays, I
> > suspect AltGr will be defined as that in the future.
>
> Something related to xkb has changed in recent debian-patched Xfree releases
> as well as in Xorg 6.8.1+ that made necessary to apply the patch I mentioned
> to Emacs.
Hrm... I'm using Xorg CVS HEAD...
> > > > That is, I can't obtain the symbols that are normally obtained with an
> > > > ISO_Level3_Shift + key combo. Emacs "interprets" it apparently as
> > > > Meta-key.
> > >
> > > When did this bug first show up? We applied a patch recently which
> > > was related to xkb map. It has not been applied to XEmacs yet.
> >
> > Ah, could be ! I think it didn't happen before my upgrade a few days
> > ago, but then, I'm also just switching from xemacs to emacs so it's a
> > bit difficult to say. I suppose I could be emacs myself without the
> > patch to confirm that, but I would need some help I suppose, as I've
> > never been close to trying to build that monster before :)
>
> The patch was introduced in 21.3+1-8. Could you please grab 21.3+1-7
> from snapshot.debian.net and tell us if it changes anything?
Ok, it wasn't in the pool, I'll try to find it there. It could be a bug
in the patch.
> That said, I suspect you could have to change your settings for this
> new compliance. Unfortunately, I have zero knowledge about xkb but the
> originator of the said patch might help us.
I don't think I _can_ find a set of settings that will work given the
way emacs is reacting but I'll investigate with the xkb folks.
Ben.
