Re: <Multi_key> does not work anymore

[Cecil Westerhof]

Op Friday 6 Mar 2015 01:02 CET schreef Emanuel Berg:

> Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> writes:
>
>>> In my .xmodmap I have: keycode 135 = Multi_key With
>>> this I could always use the menu-key followed by
>>> two spaces to get a non-break space. In other
>>> programs it still works like this, but in Emacs I
>>> get now: <Multi_key> is undefined What is happening
>>> here?
>>
>> The interesting bid is that in Emacs with root it
>> still works.
>
> Did you modify the keymap for the root user as well?
>
> If Emacs says "<Multi_key> is undefined" then it
> should be easy enough to solve this, just define
> (bind) it to do whatever you want. If you want it to
> be a key sequence probably you need to make it a
> "prefix key" as well, as in:
>
> ; step 1 - name
> (define-prefix-command    'C-o-prefix)
>
> ; step 2 - bind
> (global-set-key "\C-o"    'C-o-prefix)
>
> ; step 3 - normal usage as you would any key
> (global-set-key "\C-\M-j" 'scroll-left-1)
> ; ...

It has nothing to do with Emacs: it is done with xmodmap, so it is an
X binding not an Emacs binding. This is something I defined years ago
(globally, so for normal user and root user) and always worked. I did
not change anything in .xnodmap or in .emacs. So this should not be
happening, but it is.

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Cecil Westerhof
Senior Software Engineer
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