Re: [RP] compose key

[twb]

Quoth Shawn Betts <address@hidden> on or about Sat, 06 Mar 2004 02:10:44 -0800:
> twb <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > I just noticed that compose (Multi_key) doesn't work in the RP
> > minibuffer.  This makes me suspect we're not doing it the
> > xfree-preferred way.
> 
> What's the xfree preferred way? I'd like to know how to properly read
> input in X.

I dunno.  I have a similar problem, when I swap the Delete and Insert
keys (via xmodmap), everything works EXCEPT emacs, which suddenly
treats Delete as if it's a Backspace.  It occured to me that emacs was
doing something esoteric, like reading keycodes instead of syms
sometimes.

Likewise, I thought maybe something unusual was being done to e.g.
grab the keyboard uniquely, since AFAIK the X client shouldn't even
see `<Compose> a "' , only the ä.  I find it hard to believe that
clients would need to know how the compose key works.

I guess as you don't know what I'm talking about, it's an X problem.

-trent

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