Re: Problem with the RETURN key

[Ovidiu Predescu]

On Monday, Dec 16, 2002, at 16:50 US/Pacific, Ovidiu Predescu wrote:

> To alleviate the problem I defined:
>
> (global-set-key [return] 'newline)
>
> in my .emacs. But it would be good to have this work with the stock 
> Emacs.
>
> > 2002-10-04  Steven Tamm  <address@hidden>
> >
> >         * macterm.c (keycode_to_xkeysym_table): Change return to be
> >         treated like an X keysym.
> >
> > But it was done quite a while ago.  But you should probably start
> > looking there.
>
> Up until very recently I've been using CVS sources extracted from on 
> September 27. This problem started affecting me only in the past few 
> days.

I was wrong, my solution worked in limited cases only. Replacing in the 
keycode_to_xkeysym_table array the '\x0d' with 0 solved the problem for 
me.

Steven, could you provide a quick explanation why the change was needed 
in the first place?

Regards,
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Ovidiu Predescu <address@hidden>
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