Subject: Re: bug#73813: 30.0.91; icomplete-mode keymap unusable in xterm for for/backward completions

From: Van Ly <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2024 13:03:22 +0000

There seems to be a problem for emacsclient in the xterm.

The "modifyOtherKeys: 1" xresource setting results in emacs receiving

 ";5;44~" for C-, and 
 ";5;46~" for C-. when wanting to cycle the icomplete completions

To demonstrate,

 # start graphical UI emacs from shell prompt

 1. start, emacs --init-dir=/path/name
 2. use, M-x server-start
 3. use, M-x icomplete-mode

 # at a second xterm

 x. start from wrapper script, 
    env TERM=vt100 emacsclient -f "/path/name/server/file" -ta "" "$@"
 y. M-x man RET fe
 z. use C-, and C-. shows,
    Manual entry: fe;5;44~;5;46~ [No matches]

The following are scripts for how emacs and emacsclient are launched.

I wasn't able to use the "emacs -Q" invocation with emacsclient to
produce the observed unexpected behavior.

# emacs-30x.sh

1 #!/bin/sh
2 P=/u/w/src/emacs/build-30-2/src/emacs
3 D="/u/w/sys/emacs/30x"
4 $P --init-dir="$D"

# emacsclient-plain-30x.sh

1 #!/bin/sh
2 P=/u/w/src/emacs/build-30-2/lib-src/emacsclient
3 F=/u/w/sys/emacs/30x/server/server
4 env TERM=vt100 $P -f "$F" -ta "" "$@"

-- 
vl