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- x-gateway: rodan.UU.NET from help-lucid-emacs to alt.lucid-emacs.help; Tue, 15 Sep 1992 21:48:45 EDT
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 18:45:42 PDT
- Message-ID: <9209160145.AA19981@thalidomide.lucid>
- X-Windows: Power tools for power fools.
- From: jwz@lucid.com (Jamie Zawinski)
- Sender: jwz%thalidomide@lucid.com
- Subject: Re: New user finds bugs? Or maybe I'm just confused.
- References: <9209152222.AA20803@lucid.com>
- <9209160110.AA19851@thymus.synaptics>
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- In message <9209160110.AA19851@thymus.synaptics> Dave Gillespie wrote:
- >
- >> emacs: Alt_R (0x39) generates Mod1, which is generated by Meta.
- >> Unfortunately, this is exactly the behaviour I want. I want Meta-x
- >> and Alt_R-x to be indistinguishable.
- >
- > I agree here. Lucid GNU Emacs needs to be more forgiving about this.
- > Does anybody know why lemacs checks this while other programs don't
- > seem to mind?
-
- Other programs do arbitrarily wrong things, because Xt contains no sanity
- checks. The X keyboard model is a complete mess that allows huge numbers of
- ambiguities. Meta and Alt are not the same "key". They are distinguishable,
- and thus should have different modifiers attached to them.
-
- If you want two keys to act as "meta" then they should both have "meta"
- keysyms attached to them. You get this message when you have a Meta keysym
- attached to one and an Alt keysym attached to the other.
-
- I believe that emacs behaves exactly the same as Xt, the only difference
- being that emacs complains when it sees a keyboard configuration that doesn't
- make sense, and Xt does not.
-
- -- Jamie
-