Public bug reported: Binary package hint: emacs22
Dead keys appear not to work in emacs22, at least when using a Finnish keyboard layout. This is in current Ubuntu Intrepid (but IIRC was also present in Hardy). To reproduce: Activate Finnish keyboard layout (or some keyboard layout that has dead keys such as USA International), and press a dead key combination (eg. AltGr+~ or similar). In other programs you can type another key after this, to produce ~ or ñ. In emacs22 only message "<dead-tilde> is undefined" appears in the minibuffer. Same with a fresh guest account. A workaround is noted here: http://groups.google.co.uk/group/gnu.emacs.help/browse_thread/thread/d5b1ab43f0ec5203 Basically, (load-library "iso-transl") fixes this. I think dead keys should simply work out-of-the-box in Ubuntu, so could this stanza please be added in the default Emacs startup scripts (assuming it has no adverse effects)? Package versions: emacs22 22.2-0ubuntu1 xev reports the following to occur when a dead key is pressed: KeyPress event, serial 34, synthetic NO, window 0x1e00001, root 0x1a6, subw 0x0, time 28180805, (953,693), root:(959,742), state 0x80, keycode 35 (keysym 0xfe53, dead_tilde), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (7e) "~" XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes: XFilterEvent returns: True ** Affects: emacs22 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- dead keys don't work https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/261941 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
