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29.0.50; Emacs ignores xmodmap Super_L assignment

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From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>
To: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
Cc: 54289 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#54289: 29.0.50; Emacs ignores xmodmap Super_L assignment
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2022 14:55:14 +0100

On Tue, 08 Mar 2022 21:35:21 +0800 Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com> wrote:

> Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net> writes:
>
>> With that Super_L (the Windows key) is again recognized as `/' in
>> emacs-29 and also in Firefox.
>
> That confirms it's not really a bug in Emacs.  But I will look for a
> better solution to this problem (the commit which introduced this
> problem was originally put in to satisfy buggy input methods which act
> on modifier keys, but don't filter them out).  Thanks.

Thank you, I appreciate it.

>> Why does this work but having the mappings in .Xmodmap doesn't?  (I
>> also tried putting those three mappings after the five mappings I've
>> been using for years in .Xmodmap, but it makes no difference.)
>
> As for that, I have no idea.

Well, at least you've given me a workaround for now.  Thanks.

Steve Berman

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