Denis Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Absolutely.
> Emacs and xemacs have a predefined list of keys that can behave as
> modifiers.  With your settings, <LALT> acts as a Meta-key when shifted,
> so emacs treat it as a modifier key.  In fact, your problem is not
> related to XKB at all.
> As you can imagine, both programs use slightly different algorithms
> to compute this predefined list of modifier keys, which is why xemacs
> works here but not emacs.  IMO this bug can be closed unless someone
> wants to report this issue upstream, but I am not sure whether there
> is a solution to this problem without rewriting lots of code.

Denis,

Many thanks for your help on this issue!

Would you have time to write a short summary of the issue that I'd
forward upstream? Currently, I think that Emacs has enough manpower
and I'm sure someone could have a look.

Thanks in advance!

-- 
Jérôme Marant

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