Re: messing up my keyboard (somehow)

[Jason Trenouth]

>>>>> "Barney" == Barney Dalton <barneydalton@my-deja.com> writes:

    Barney> Not sure if its a bug, or just me typing badly! I found a
    Barney> way to reset it, which suggests it is a win32 specific
    Barney> problem executing (w32-set-keyboard-layout '(2057 . 2057))
    Barney> solves the problem - its getting set to (1033 . 1033)
    Barney> somehow. I'm not exactly sure how these numbers relate to
    Barney> layouts but my guess is they are uk/us. I didn't know
    Barney> about C-h l - will do that next time it happens.

Hi,

Since I just found the solution to this old chestnut I thought I'd
post it to the thread I found so that others following the same trail
find it.

Windows NT/2K can have multiple keyboard layouts defined with a hot
key sequence to switch between them. The default seems to be Shift-Alt
which is obviously a pain for Emacs users as they probably end up
switching their keyboard layout backwards and forwards multiple times
in every session if they have multiple layouts defined...  (BTW the
switch seems to be application-specific. Only the current application
gets its keyboard switched.)

The solution is to:

        click Start -> Settings -> Regional Options
        click last tab called "Input Locales"
        ensure that there is no hot key sequence defined for switching (*)

__Jason

(*) The exact UI of this bit of the dialog differs between NT and 2K
and doubtless has changed again in XP.

PS I don't subscribe gnu.emacs.help as a rule so I won't see any
further followups unless they happen soon after the submission.
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Hello!

Several times in the last years people have asked, if it is possible
to use gnuclient inside an ordinary terminal resulting in an Emacs
session for the terminal.  The answer was that XEmacs can and GNU
Emacs can't.  Has this changed with Emacs 21?

Nicolas.


P.S.: I tried it on my Debian system.  Here, gnuclient can open X
frames if the DISPLAY variable is set, but when I call it from a
console without DISPLAY set then I get the error message

error in process filter: Wrong number of arguments: #[(&optional tty 
terminal-type) "ÂÀÁ       D#‡" [tty terminal-type make-device] 5 "Create a 
new device on TTY.
  TTY should be the name of a tty device file (e.g. \"/dev/ttyp3\" under
SunOS et al.), as returned by the `tty' command.  A value of nil means
use the stdin and stdout as passed to XEmacs from the shell.
  If TERMINAL-TYPE is non-nil, it should be a string specifying the
type of the terminal attached to the specified tty.  If it is nil,
the terminal type will be inferred from the TERM environment variable."],