[14271] in Athena Bugs
emacs19 issues
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Thu Mar 28 00:49:43 1996
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 00:49:38 -0500
To: ghudson@MIT.EDU
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
This is not really a bug report, but here are some of the problems I
had when I started trying to use emacs19 off of the packs. I'm
sending them in so that teh ones that may be common are addressed by
the documentation. Of course, both problems may only occur to people
who know how to handle them.
First, the elisp function mail-setup() takes an additional argument,
this broke some elisp of mine.
Second, I found I couldn't use any of the keys I had bound to meta on
my Sun (I haven't tried any other platform yet.) It turns out that I
trying to make my Caps Lock key a meta key, I had bound it to Super_L
and done 'add mod1 = Super_L' in xmodmap. It seems that having
Super_L in the mod1 list caused emacs19 to think that all of the meta
keys were meta-super keys (ie. , I got M-s-x when I wanted M-x.)
Removing Super_L from the mod1 list fixed all but the Caps Lock key,
which I rebound to Alt_R (since it was free). Adding Alt_R to the
mod1 list seems to have fixed the Caps Lock key without breaking any
of the others. Hmmm, in retrospect, I wonder if it is a bug in emacs
that it interpereted all of the Meta keys as Meta-super?
--
Jonathon
