Unfortunately some real work(tm) kept me from trying anything in the
last few weeks but today I finally did some experiments with the new
pre2a code:
Adrian Robert wrote:
>> In the last version of Emacs.app I had (9.0pre2 + some CVS) it was not
>> possible to bind the "Delete" key on my keyboard to some kind of
>> forward-delete because (accoring to C-h-k) it was the same keyboard
>> event as backspace. Is this a known problem or even intended? It is a
>> major grievance to me.
>
> I don't really know much about this area. If Emacs.app differs from
> other emacsen in this regard you might examine the bindings in
> lisp/term/ns-win-el and see if you can evaluate some lisp in the scratch
> buffer to counteract anything that looks suspicious. For example, I see
> the following two lines in ns-win.el:
>
> (put 'backspace 'ascii-character 127)
> (put 'delete 'ascii-character 127)
That code is the same in Carbon Emacs where the Delete key works. I also
tried changing it to no avail.
> really not that familiar with the key processing in emacs, and it's
> entirely possible that something is done incorrectly in Emacs.app. Most
> of the keyboard handling dates from the keyboard that came with the NeXT
> computers. Another place to look if changing things in lisp does not
> work is nsterm.m -keyDown method..
I put in some printfs and found that at this point there are different
key codes for Backspace and Delete.
Under OSX 10.4.6 I get the following code values in line 3656 of
nsterm.m (just after getting the code from theEvent):
code 51 for Backspace
code 117 for Delete
and still different codes in line 3683 (before exiting keyDown):
code 0x1003007f and kind 3 for Backspace
code 0xffff and kind 3 for Delete
Can anyone make heads or tails from these values? Unfortunately I don't
know much about either Emacs' innards or *Step.
Thanks
Robert
P.S. -pre2a crashes on every attempt to display any non-ASCII character
for me, but I assume you know that already :-)
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