Re: After compose key cursor or function keys don't work

[Jan D.]

Richard Stallman wrote:

> Would someone please work on this bug?
>
> Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 09:09:43 +0100 (MET)
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> Subject: After compose key cursor or function keys don't work
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> Symptoms:
>
> When I've entered a compose key (e.g. <compose> a '), emacs doesn't respond to
> an immediately following function or cursor key. A soon as I've entered a
> "normal" key, I can use cursor or function keys again. 
>
>  

I only have Solaris 9, and I could not reproduce it there.  I think the 
original reporter has to debug this a bit.  I suspect that for some 
reason compose_status is not right, around line 6276 there is a break 
that in effect ignores key presses.  If you add a printf before that 
line you can see if that is the problem.  Stepping in the code just 
before in that function and checking where it goes wrong may find a 
solution.

   Jan D.