GNU bug report logs - #74134
29.4; emacs-pgtk and emacs-gtk-x11 does not react the same way to c-s-u

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: joakim <at> verona.se
Cc: luangruo <at> yahoo.com, 74134 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#74134: 29.4; emacs-pgtk and emacs-gtk-x11 does not react
 the same way to c-s-u
Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2024 08:59:08 +0200

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> From: joakim <at> verona.se
> Cc: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>,  74134 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 20:39:29 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > Isn't this the following known issue from PROBLEMS?
> >
> >   ** Certain keys such as 'C-S-u' are not reported correctly.
> >
> >   Some keys with modifiers such as Shift and Control might not be
> >   reported correctly due to incorrectly written GTK input method
> >   modules.  This is known to happen to 'C-S-u' and 'C->', which are
> >   misreported as 'C-u' and '>'.
> >
> >   To disable the use of GTK input methods, evaluate:
> >
> >     (pgtk-use-im-context nil)
> >
> >   This will also cause system input methods and features such as the
> >   Compose key to stop working.
> >
> >   On X Windows, users should not use Emacs configured with PGTK, since
> >   this and many other problems do not exist on the regular X builds.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
>     (pgtk-use-im-context nil)
> 
> inhibited the broken gtk input method c-s-u behaviour, and now the code below can be
> made to emulate the behaviour in other applications.
> 
> 
> ;; enable standard linux unicode input
> (define-key global-map (kbd "C-S-u") 'read-unicode-char)
> 
> (defun read-unicode-char (c1 c2 c3 c4 _trailing_space_ignored)
>   "Convert unicode input C1 C2 C3 C4 to the corresponding insert char call."
>   (interactive "c\nc\nc\nc\nc")
>   (insert-char (string-to-number (format "%c%c%c%c" c1 c2 c3 c4) 16)))
> 
> PS
> I'm using Sway/Wayland and emacs-pgtk looks better than emacs-gtk-x11
> there. Maybe I'll go back to X11 when the novelty of Sway faded.

So can we close this bug now?

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