On 23 Jan 2003, Sam Steingold wrote: > control-alt-backspace (C-M-BS) is an important key combination in Emacs, > usually bound to backwards-kill-sexp.
> in XFree86-4.2.99.3 (as comes with Red Hat beta phoebe), > it is not available to Emacs, see bug > <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=81947> > usually, C-M-BS kills the X server, so you need to enable the > DontZap option in /etc/X11/XF86Config. > xev(1) reports C-M-BS as > KeyPress event, serial 25, synthetic NO, window 0x2c00001, > root 0x3f, subw 0x0, time 65848720, (154,149), root:(162,184), > state 0x0, keycode 37 (keysym 0xffe3, Control_L), same_screen YES, > XLookupString gives 0 bytes: "" > KeyPress event, serial 25, synthetic NO, window 0x2c00001, > root 0x3f, subw 0x0, time 65848733, (154,149), root:(162,184), > state 0x4, keycode 64 (keysym 0xffe9, Alt_L), same_screen YES, > XLookupString gives 0 bytes: "" > KeyRelease event, serial 25, synthetic NO, window 0x2c00001, > root 0x3f, subw 0x0, time 65849308, (154,149), root:(162,184), > state 0xc, keycode 22 (keysym 0xfed5, Terminate_Server), same_screen YES, > XLookupString gives 0 bytes: "" > some files in /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/ mention "Terminate_Server". > fortunately, a simple > $ xmodmap -e 'keycode 22 = BackSpace' > fixes the problem, but this is an extremely inconvenient default. This is not an XFree86 bug. Ctl-Alt-BackSpace has killed the server as far back as I can remember. Certainly before 2.0, and likely before emacs. Fix emacs. Marc. +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | Marc Aurele La France | work: 1-780-492-9310 | | Computing and Network Services | fax: 1-780-492-1729 | | 352 General Services Building | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | University of Alberta +-----------------------------------+ | Edmonton, Alberta | | | T6G 2H1 | Standard disclaimers apply | | CANADA | | +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ XFree86 Core Team member. ATI driver and X server internals. _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
