Hi Adrian,
Adrian Robert wrote:
> On Jan 20, 2007, at 11:54 AM, Robert Casties wrote:
>> On a German (PowerBook?) keyboard S-⌥-` produces the correct ˚,
>> without
>> the ⌥ (alt) modifier S-` only produces the message
>> “<S-268632064> is
>> undefined”.
>>
>> I compiled rc1 from the full source tarball on PPC and Intel with the
>> same results.
>>
>> Any insights on this front?
>
> Ah well, must have confused this one with the Shift-alt-6 keyboard
> error. (Does no one use anything besides German keyboards with
> Emacs.app or do all other ones just work more simply? ;)
I would think that some other European keyboard layouts have the same
kind of problems but I am not sure. The Mac layout for the German
keyboard is just really insane (A-S-7 for backslash? what were they
smoking?)
> I can put in a special-case detection for shifted dead keys, but the
> code in EmacsView-keyDown in nsterm.m is getting rather complicated
> to handle all the special cases and I'm worried it will break
> something else that I don't normally use. Could you and anyone else
> interested please replace line 3852 with the following and test it as
> thoroughly as you can for a couple of weeks? If ill effects with
> other keys aren't observed I'll put it into the next release.
>
> if (fnKeysym || (emacs_event->modifiers && [[theEvent
> characters] length] > 0))
>
> This "works for me" but I don't know if there are cases out there
> where modified zero-character non-function keys should be passed to
> emacs.
It "works for me" now too! Thanks!
I noted no other ill effects after some minutes of testing.
Cheers
Robert
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