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Re: Alt_L and Alt_R are not the same
From: |
Ehud Karni |
Subject: |
Re: Alt_L and Alt_R are not the same |
Date: |
Tue, 2 Oct 2001 14:27:23 +0200 |
On Tue, 02 Oct 2001 02:17:32 +0200, Alex Schroeder <alex@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> I just remapped two of my keys in .Xmodmap as follows:
>
> keycode 115 = Alt_L
> keycode 116 = Alt_R
>
> When I run xmodmap, these changes are reflected:
>
> ~$ xmodmap -pk
> ...
> 115 0xffe9 (Alt_L)
> 116 0xffea (Alt_R)
> ...
>
> Emacs, however, seems to recognize only Alt_L as "A-" modifier.
> When I use C-h k and then Alt_L + q I get:
>
> A-q is undefined
>
> When I use C-h k and then Alt_R + q I get:
>
> q runs the command self-insert-command
>
> I think Emacs should treat both Alt_L and Alt_R as "A-" and therefore
> I expected Emacs to respond as before:
>
> A-q is undefined
Let me guess that you work with German keyboard where the right-Alt is
used for composing German characters. I think that Emacs never gets
the events of pressing/releasing the right-Alt.
Can you check with `xev' what are the events when you press right-Alt
+ q and compare it to pressing left-Alt + q ?
Ehud.
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