GNU bug report logs - #60077
29.0.60; Is xterm modifyOtherKeys support broken?

Previous Next

Full log

Message #26 received at 60077 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Len Trigg <lenbok <at> gmail.com>
Cc: dann <at> ics.uci.edu, 60077 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#60077: 29.0.60; Is xterm modifyOtherKeys support broken?
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2022 08:52:30 +0200

> From: Len Trigg <lenbok <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2022 08:48:54 +1300
> Cc: 60077 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, dann <at> ics.uci.edu
> 
> On Thu, 15 Dec 2022 at 22:10, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:
> 
>  > And my wild speculation from looking at the example table "Other modified-key escapes" on
>  > https://invisible-island.net/xterm/modified-keys-us-pc105.html is that emacs would need an entry like:
>  >                    (3 32 [?\M-\s])
>  > to handle the modifyOtherKeys encoding of "\E[27;3;32~" for M-SPC,
> 
>  If that fixes the problem, we could install it.
> 
> I tried this out and it does fix the issue for me.

OK, will install that soon.

> BTW, have you tried to replicate the issue yourself?

I can't: I don't have access to a system with such a terminal
emulator.

>  There's nothing wrong with solving this one problem at a time, right?
>  Especially since we don't seem to have complaints about other
>  sequences.
>  
> I suppose so, I'm just a little wary of fixing like this without understanding why it only seems to be an issue now
> or whether other guards are needed. For example, the commit log for this area shows Dan Nicolaescu adding
> more bindings in c0658ad46e4928ecdf6a14904073dc8a2fcfe862 and also bumping the xterm version
> number that is checked against, so he is probably knowledgeable about how this works. (I've tried to add him
> to the CC list using the email address in that commit)

Yes, thanks.  Dan, if you have time to look into this and advise,
please do.

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.