Re: Problem with the RETURN key

[Ovidiu Predescu]

Hi Andrew,

Thanks a lot for the quick reply!

On Monday, Dec 16, 2002, at 12:17 US/Pacific, Andrew Choi wrote:

> Ovidiu Predescu <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > With the latest CVS I get a really weird problem on MacOS X. The
> > return key does not seem to work anymore on my TiBook 800MHz. The only
> > way I can make it to work is if I press the Function key on the
> > keyboard. When I hook up a USB keyboard to the laptop, the return key
> > on this is still not functional, but the return key on the keypad
> > works just fine.  [...]
>
> I don't have access to a TiBook so I cannot check this.  Please check
> whether RET is recognized at all by Emacs.  I.e., what does
>
>   (read-event)
>
> evaluate to when you hit the return key?  The most recent change to key
> handle I can think of is the following.

This is indeed interesting. Here are the results of running 
(read-event):

- external keyboard:
    keypad return key: 'kp-enter'
    normal return key: 'return'

- built-in keyboard:
    return key with "function" button pressed: 'kp-enter'
    normal return key: 'return'

'kp-enter' is bound to 'newline', but 'return' is bound to nothing, 
which is why it doesn't work. To alleviate the problem I defined:

(global-set-key [return] 'newline)

in my .emacs. But it would be good to have this work with the stock 
Emacs.

> 2002-10-04  Steven Tamm  <address@hidden>
>
>         * macterm.c (keycode_to_xkeysym_table): Change return to be
>         treated like an X keysym.
>
> But it was done quite a while ago.  But you should probably start
> looking there.

Up until very recently I've been using CVS sources extracted from on 
September 27. This problem started affecting me only in the past few 
days.

Regards,
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Ovidiu Predescu <address@hidden>
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