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- From: eskilb@dhhalden.no (Eskil Brun)
- Subject: Re: Emacs on the HP710 (problems)...
- Message-ID: <eskilb.722436203@fenris.dhhalden.no>
- Organization: Ostfold College
- References: <1992Nov17.090913.1@pa621a.inland.com>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 12:43:23 GMT
- Lines: 50
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- solomon@pa621a.inland.com (Paul J. Solomon) writes:
-
- >Greetings:
-
- >I recently installed emacs on my 710 (from the HP LaserPro demo
- >CDROM). I am having a problem with a particular key combination:
- >M-w (ExtendChar-w). This key combination is supposed to copy the
- >current region into the paste buffer (copy-region-as-kill). Whenever
- >I type this key combo, though, a ~ is inserted at the cursor point
- >instead. If I try to use describe-key and hit M-w, it is not recognized.
- >ESC w seems to work. Also, this version of emacs seems to recognize
- >other Meta key combinations (except M-w).
-
- >Am I doing something wrong in the setup files? Or is this version
- >from the LaserPro disk (vol 2.1) bogus?
-
- See FAQ 68 in the emacs-18.58 distribution.
-
- If you're running HP-UX 8.07, you can just do:
-
- xmodmap -e 'remove mod1 = Mode_switch'
-
- or put remove mod1 = Mode_switch into your ~/.Xmodmap.
-
- If you're running 8.05, this won't work due to a bug in the HP X
- server. You must then iterate over all keycodes and change the 3rd and
- 4th entries to the same as the 1st and 2nd, i.e. something like:
-
- keycode 61 = w W w asciitilde
- keycode 123 = slash question slash question
-
- aso.
-
- Yech.
-
- Here is FAQ no. 68 - in extenso:
-
- 68: Why doesn't my ExtendChar key work as a Meta key under HP-UX 8.0?
-
- This is a result of an internationalization extension in X11R4 and
- the fact that HP is now using this extension. Emacs assumes that
- XLookupString returns the same result regardless of the Meta key state
- which is no longer necessarily true. Until Emacs is fixed, the
- temporary kludge is to run this command after each time the X server
- is started but preferably before any xterm clients are:
-
- xmodmap -e 'remove mod1 = Mode_switch'
-
- NOTE: This will disable the use of the extra keysyms systemwide,
- which may be undesirable if you actually intend to use them.
-