bug#24729: 24.5; unable to get the "~" character on a Swiss-French keyboard under OSX

[Thierry Jeanneret]

Hi There,

I am using the sml-mode/REPL from inside Emacs. When I try to get the "~" character (normally Right Alt-n on my Swiss-French keyboard) I get what looks to be the first command of the history buffer instead.

When I use the REPL from inside a terminal I don't have this problem, the "~" is available as usual, as here.

My config :

MacOS 10.12. 

French language

Swiss-french keyboard

sml/nj from http://www.smlnj.org/dist/working/110.80/.

Standard sml-mode, from Stefan Monnier

Stefan gave me a work-around allowing me to get this character when I need it. But this may be a bug so I contact you directly. So did I.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Thierry

In GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0, NS apple-appkit-1265.21)

 of 2015-04-10 on builder10-9.porkrind.org

Windowing system distributor `Apple', version 10.3.1504

Configured using:

 `configure --with-ns '--enable-locallisppath=/Library/Application

 Support/Emacs/${version}/site-lisp:/Library/Application

 Support/Emacs/site-lisp''

Important settings:

  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix

Major mode: Inferior-SML

Minor modes in effect:

  compilation-minor-mode: t

  tooltip-mode: t

  electric-indent-mode: t

  mouse-wheel-mode: t

  tool-bar-mode: t

  menu-bar-mode: t

  file-name-shadow-mode: t

  global-font-lock-mode: t

  font-lock-mode: t

  blink-cursor-mode: t

  auto-composition-mode: t

  auto-encryption-mode: t

  auto-compression-mode: t

  line-number-mode: t

  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent messages:

For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.

user-error: End of history; no default available

Load-path shadows:

None found.

Features:

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mml-sec mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev

gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util

help-fns mail-prsvr mail-utils sml-mode compile comint ansi-color ring

easymenu smie browse-url package epg-config time-date tooltip electric

uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel ns-win tool-bar dnd

fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list newcomment lisp-mode

prog-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar

mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core frame cham georgian

utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean

japanese hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian

cyrillic chinese case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev

minibuffer nadvice loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files

text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule

custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote make-network-process

cocoa ns multi-tty emacs)

Memory information:

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 (symbols 48 18593 0)

 (miscs 40 102 163)

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 (vectors 16 10746)

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