On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 08:59 +0100, Jérôme Marant wrote: > Quoting Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Ok, I tried 21.3+1-6 (-7 wasn't built for ppc it seems) and the problem > > is the same. My ISO_Level3_Shift key is sort-of interpreted by emacs as > > beeing another Meta and it will refuse symbols generated with it. Dunno > > what's wrong, but that basically makes it unuseable. I don't understand > > why it does that as it has already a perfectly working Meta key on Mod1 > > Thanks for trying. > Denis has not replied to my call for help yet. By chance, would you know > anyone who can help us with this issue? Very few people on earth have > some knowledge of XKB. > > I guess there is a reason why you wanted to swtich from XEmacs to Emacs? :-) > We don't want to lose a new user :-)
Ok, Denis gave me a "tip" that allowed me to find the problem (it was indeed a config issue, though it's weird that xemacs and emacs react differently). I have some other problems with emacs and xkb, but I'll come back later with those. It's almost impossible to make a Mac "fr" keymap that reacts like in MacOS due to "Alt" beeing both "Alt" and used to generate various symbols basically... To reply to your other question: I'm not a long time (x)emacs user, since I come from a MacOS background. I started slowly with xemacs about 2 years ago because a co-worker of mine was helping me getting up to speed with it and I wanted to get used to something I could find easily on any linux box, instead of "jcc" that I had been using on linux for a while before that which had the interest of having the exact same key shortcuts as CodeWarrior (which I used for years on MacOS), but became non-free. I'm now wanting to switch to emacs because xemacs is slower, the "tabs" stuff is totally buggy, and it's easier to find emacs than xemacs on an existing install you are ssh'ing to :) Ben.
