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#56117
29.0.50; pgtk does not distinguish between <kp-separator> and "."/","
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Message #29 received at 56117 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
> Cc: 56117 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, stefan <at> marxist.se, qsx <at> chaotikum.eu
> Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2022 16:16:41 +0800
> From: Po Lu via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
> the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
>
> Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:
>
> > And as both Eli and I have said, we think those changes you've made to
> > pgtk here should be reverted so that these keys work as before.
>
> This isn't the super-key related bug, and in fact they shouldn't have
> been merged. No amount of changes on our side can work around input
> methods swallowing the shift modifier in "C-S-u" and the "kp-" in
> "kp-separator".
Maybe we are talking about an issue that is not understood well enough
by some participants (e.g., myself). Can you please describe in more
detail what causes this particular issue?
> > Even though it's "wrong". Maintaining a user-facing program like
> > Emacs is 70% dealing with bugs and misfeatures in other systems we're
> > interfacing with.
>
> I'm trying to figure out how all of that fits together in Wayland to
> hopefully fix it in GTK upstream. Hard-coding real modifier values is
> very fundamentally wrong under both X and GTK, and leads to extremely
> hard-to-diagnose problems down-the-road.
Instead of hard-coding them, we could have them in some Lisp data
structure, where both changing them and eliminating them altogether
will be much easier. Just an idea.
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