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23.4; Compose key does not work well in current Debian testing (wheezy).

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From: boris <boris <at> iis.sinica.edu.tw>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 23.4; Compose key does not work well in current Debian testing
	(wheezy).
Date: 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.

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>

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

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)


-- 
boris <boris <at> iis.sinica.edu.tw>

Message #8 received at 11234 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: boris <boris <at> iis.sinica.edu.tw>
Cc: 11234 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#11234: 23.4;
	Compose key does not work well in current Debian testing (wheezy).
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:31:41 -0400

> 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/...?

IOW my crystal ball tells me that your .XCompose file is lacking
a `include "%L"' so it overrides the default rather than extends it.
And you don't notice it in Iceweasel because you haven't set the envvar
GTK_IM_MODULE=xim, so those apps don't actually use your .XCompose
file anyway.


        Stefan

Message #13 received at 11234-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 11234-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, boris <boris <at> iis.sinica.edu.tw>
Subject: Re: bug#11234: 23.4; Compose key does not work well in current
 Debian testing (wheezy).
Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 20:50:05 +0100

Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> 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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