Re: [STUMP] Possible bug with C-ae as a prefix-key

Hi Jón,

I have some ideas about this, and I suspect that its got to do with they
way StumpWM parses the keysym code.  Please open an issue (your link is
correct), and I'll look into this.  It looks like a legitimate bug.

Cheers,

    Dave

Jón Gunnar Þorsteinsson <[email protected]> writes:

> Hi David,
>
> and thanks for your reply.
>
> My keyboard is:
>
> ,----
> | XKBMODEL="pc105"
> | XKBLAYOUT="is"
> | XKBVARIANT=""
> | XKBOPTIONS=""
> `----
> (/etc/default/keyboard)
>
> So the letter 'æ' is placed on my keyboard, on the right, next to
> 'l'. I don't need a modifier key to insert á literal 'æ'
>
> And it works fine setting it as a prefix key this way: C-ae - in stumpwm, except
> when I try to send C-a (not C-ae) to Emacs.
>
> In that case I have to type "C-ae ae" - and that sends, what I normally
> do with only C-a in Emacs.
>
> I tried to use a literal æ in my config but then Stumpwm replies with:
>
> ,----
> | Failed to parse key string: "C-æ"
> `----
>
> I saw here:
>
> https://github.com/stumpwm/cl-xkeysym/blob/master/keysyms.lisp
>
> that the keycode 47 is ae:
>
> ,----
> | (define-keysym #x00e6 "ae") ;U+00E6 LATIN SMALL LETTER AE
> `----
>
> By the way, I have used C-ae in Ratpoison and it works fine there:
>
> ,----
> | escape C-ae
> `----
>
> In Ratpoison I can use keycode 47 as a prefix - and C-a works fine in
> Emacs.
>
> I would be grateful if this could be solved. Is this the right place
> to open an issue?
>
> https://github.com/stumpwm/stumpwm/issues

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