Re: Shift-f? doesn't work anymore

>>>>> "Markus" == Markus Grunwald <[email protected]> writes:

    Markus> So xemacs ignores my shift key on function keys.  Do you
    Markus> have any idea what this interresting "feature" is ?

Yes.  It's almost certainly the deliberate backward incompatibility on
the part of XFree86.

They have used the X Keyboard Extension (XKB) to assign keysyms for VT
switching in such a way as to make it appear to applications that do
not use XKB that there is a separate keysym assigned to Shift-Fn, for
Fn a function key.  XEmacs checks for this possibility.  :-(

We're working on a fix, but since it's XFree86-specific, we need to
make sure the fix doesn't break other platforms.  (The "fix" suggested
by the Xfree86 developers is known to break character composition on
Solaris, for example, and may break XIM in general for similar reasons.)

There's a thread on this, in this month, and maybe some in August, on
xemacs-beta.  http://www.xemacs.org/Lists/#xemacs-beta for access to
the list archives.

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