bug#11234: closed (23.4; Compose key does not work well in current Debian testing (wheezy).)

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> 23.4; Compose key does not work well in current Debian testing	(wheezy).
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> Fri, 13 Apr 2012 14:47:11 +0800
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> After running emacs under Debian mentioned above, fully updated,
> general compose key shortcuts do not work. The only compose key
> shorcuts that work in emacs under the described conditions are
> those, that are defined in ~/.XCompose file (I defined three shortcuts
> there, ☺, →, ← to test what I say, and they work. The shortcuts defined
> in /usr/share/X11/locale/... do not work. Compose key works OK in other
> X programs, such as Libre Office, Iceweasel, terminator. Eg. xterm seems
> to have similar problem as emacs, but that might be due to its inept
> font. I posted it on stackoverflow, and was told to send a bug report.
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> yours truly, boris
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> In GNU Emacs 23.4.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.10)
>  of 2012-03-21 on murphy, modified by Debian
> Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11104000
> configured using `configure  '--build' 'i486-linux-gnu' '--build' 
> 'i486-linux-gnu' '--prefix=/usr' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' 
> '--libexecdir=/usr/lib' '--localstatedir=/var/lib' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' 
> '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-pop=yes' 
> '--enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs23:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/23.4/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/23.4/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp'
>  '--with-crt-dir=/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu' '--with-x=yes' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' 
> '--with-toolkit-scroll-bars' 'build_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-g -O2 
> -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Wformat-security 
> -Werror=format-security -Wall -DDEBIAN -O2' 'CPPFLAGS=-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2''
>
> Important settings:
>   value of $LC_ALL: nil
>   value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
>   value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
>   value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
>   value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
>   value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
>   value of $LC_TIME: nil
>   value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
>   value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
>   locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
>   default enable-multibyte-characters: t
>
> Major mode: Lisp Interaction
>
> Minor modes in effect:
>   show-paren-mode: t
>   shell-dirtrack-mode: t
>   pair-mode: t
>   global-auto-complete-mode: t
>   auto-complete-mode: t
>   yas/global-mode: t
>   yas/minor-mode: t
>   tooltip-mode: t
>   mouse-wheel-mode: t
>   tool-bar-mode: t
>   menu-bar-mode: t
>   file-name-shadow-mode: t
>   global-font-lock-mode: t
>   font-lock-mode: t
>   blink-cursor-mode: t
>   auto-encryption-mode: t
>   auto-compression-mode: t
>   column-number-mode: t
>   line-number-mode: t
>   transient-mark-mode: t
>   abbrev-mode: t
>
> Recent input:
> g <backspace> <backspace> ' <backspace> : g <return> 
> e n d <return> <return> c l a s s SPC S u b s t a n 
> c e A m o u n t SPC < SPC U n i t <down> <down> <left> 
> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <delete> 
> <end> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> 
> S u b s t a n c e <tab> <down-mouse-5> <mouse-5> <down-mouse-5> 
> <mouse-5> <down-mouse-5> <mouse-5> <down-mouse-5> <mouse-5> 
> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <delete> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> 
> <return> <return> c l a s s SPC p u n <backspace> <backspace> 
> o u n d SPC < SPC <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> 
> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> 
> P o u n d SPC < SPC M a s s <return> <tab> @ u n i 
> t _ s <tab> SPC = SPC : p n <backspace> <down-mouse-1> 
> <mouse-1> <down-mouse-4> <mouse-4> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> 
> <return> <return> <up> <tab> a t t r _ r e <tab> SPC 
> : u n i t _ s <tab> <down-mouse-5> <mouse-5> <down-mouse-1> 
> <mouse-movement> <drag-mouse-1> <C-S-backspace> <C-S-backspace> 
> <C-S-backspace> <C-S-backspace> <C-S-backspace> <C-S-backspace> 
> <C-S-backspace> <C-S-backspace> <C-S-backspace> <C-S-backspace> 
> <up> <end> <return> <tab> @ u n i t _ s y m b o l SPC 
> = SPC : M C-x C-s <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <switch-frame> 
> <M-f11> <switch-frame> X b C-_ C-x b * s c r <tab> 
> <return> <switch-frame> <switch-frame> <switch-frame> 
> <switch-frame> <switch-frame> <switch-frame> <switch-frame> 
> <switch-frame> M-x <escape> C-g <down-mouse-1> <mouse-movement> 
> <mouse-1> <return> <return> r e q k o <backspace> <backspace> 
> <backspace> ☺ - - → - < <switch-frame> <switch-frame> 
> <switch-frame> <switch-frame> s-\ C-\ - C-\ - ☺ → ← 
> - . C-\ M-x <escape> ☺ ☺ → ← c c <escape> <down-mouse-1> 
> <mouse-1> o ☺ s-x M-x r e p o r e <backspace> t - e 
> m a c - b u g <return>
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> Recent messages:
> Keyboard macro defined
> Undo!
> Auto-saving...done
> Auto-saving...done
> Auto-saving...done
> Auto-saving...done
> Auto-saving...done
> Saving file /home/boris/5oro/ced/ruby/temp.rb...
> Wrote /home/boris/5oro/ced/ruby/temp.rb
> Undo!
> call-interactively: Command attempted to use minibuffer while in minibuffer
>
> Load-path shadows:
> /home/boris/.emacs.d/elpa/ruby-electric-1.1/ruby-electric hides 
> /usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/ruby1.9.1-elisp/ruby-electric
> /home/boris/.emacs.d/elpa/ruby-mode-1.1/ruby-mode hides 
> /usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/ruby1.9.1-elisp/ruby-mode
> /home/boris/.emacs.d/elpa/inf-ruby-2.1/inf-ruby hides 
> /usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/ruby1.9.1-elisp/inf-ruby
> /home/boris/.emacs.d/elpa/magit-0.8.1/magit hides 
> /usr/share/emacs/23.4/site-lisp/magit/magit
> /usr/share/emacs/23.4/site-lisp/debian-startup hides 
> /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/debian-startup
> /home/boris/.emacs.d/custom/desktop hides /usr/share/emacs/23.4/lisp/desktop
> /usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/dictionaries-common/flyspell hides 
> /usr/share/emacs/23.4/lisp/textmodes/flyspell
> /usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/dictionaries-common/ispell hides 
> /usr/share/emacs/23.4/lisp/textmodes/ispell
> /home/boris/.emacs.d/elpa/ruby-mode-1.1/ruby-mode hides 
> /usr/share/emacs/23.4/lisp/progmodes/ruby-mode
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> Features:
> (shadow sort mail-extr message sendmail ecomplete rfc822 mml mml-sec
> password-cache mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mailcap mail-parse rfc2231
> rfc2047 rfc2045 qp ietf-drums mailabbrev nnheader gnus-util netrc
> time-date mm-util mail-prsvr gmm-utils mailheader canlock sha1 hex-util
> hashcash mail-utils emacsbug ja-dic japan-util kkc ja-dic-utl two-column
> iso-transl novice quail mule-diag mule-util cus-edit cus-start cus-load
> pp wid-edit descr-text newcomment thingatpt find-func help-mode view
> apropos dired multi-isearch vc-git rinari jump inflections findr
> ruby-compilation which-func imenu pcomplete paren ansi-color shell
> bibtex-utils maxframe pair-mode skeleton auto-complete-config
> auto-complete popup company-autoloads hungry-delete-autoloads
> magit-autoloads paredit-autoloads rinari-autoloads jump-autoloads
> inflections-autoloads findr-autoloads ruby-compilation-autoloads
> inf-ruby-autoloads ruby-electric-autoloads ruby-mode-autoloads
> ruby-test-mode-autoloads slime-repl-autoloads slime-autoloads
> smart-operator-autoloads texdrive-autoloads wtf-autoloads yari-autoloads
> zenburn-autoloads package reporter inf-ruby ruby-mode regexp-opt compile
> comint ring advice advice-preload yasnippet help-fns derived easy-mmode
> edmacro kmacro easymenu assoc cl cl-19 tooltip ediff-hook vc-hooks
> lisp-float-type mwheel x-win x-dnd font-setting tool-bar dnd fontset
> image fringe lisp-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select
> scroll-bar mldrag mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core
> frame cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai
> tai-viet lao korean japanese hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european
> ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help
> simple abbrev loaddefs button minibuffer faces cus-face files
> text-properties overlay md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom
> widget hashtable-print-readable backquote make-network-process dbusbind
> system-font-setting font-render-setting gtk x-toolkit x multi-tty emacs)
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> boris <address@hidden>
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> Subject: 
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> Re: bug#11234: 23.4; Compose key does not work well in current Debian testing (wheezy).
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> Date: 
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> Fri, 01 Nov 2019 20:50:05 +0100
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> Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
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> >> After running emacs under Debian mentioned above, fully updated,
> >> general compose key shortcuts do not work. The only compose key
> >> shorcuts that work in emacs under the described conditions are
> >> those, that are defined in ~/.XCompose file (I defined three shortcuts
> >> there, ☺, →, ← to test what I say, and they work. The shortcuts defined
> >> in /usr/share/X11/locale/... do not work. Compose key works OK in other
> >> X programs, such as Libre Office, Iceweasel, terminator. Eg. xterm seems
> >> to have similar problem as emacs, but that might be due to its inept
> >> font. I posted it on stackoverflow, and was told to send a bug report.
> >
> > Do the usual compose sequences work if you remove the ~/.XCompose file?
> > Can you show us the content of that ~/.XCompose file?
> > Do your hand-made .XCompose sequences work in LibreOffice/Iceweasel/...?
>
> More information was requested, but none was given within 7 years, so
> I'm closing this bug.  If this is still an issue, please reopen the bug
> report.
>
> Best regards,
> Stefan Kangas
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