Re: emacs 23 term behaviour on OS X

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 10.08.2008 um 22:08 schrieb Chris Patterson:

> Unfortunately it does the same thing in zsh, csh, etc and  
> regardless of
> starting with -Q. I'm thinking that this is something with the
> keybindings in Emacs.app because I have found that on my G4 Powerbook
> the Enter key does work though Return does not. I suppose it is  
> possible that
> the problem is related only to notebook keyboards and that could  
> explain the
> difficulty in reproducing.

I think I understand now: you both do not seem to use the big Return  
key on the far right but the little one close to the space bar. In  
the X client it acts like C-c (or C-@, ASCII NUL, when holding the FN  
key), in Emacs.app it's recognised as kp-enter (or C-p when holding  
the FN key). I've bound it to other-window ...

This could be another bug in Emacs.app – there are other keys it does  
not correctly understand. You should file a bug report!

> I are also having this issue with Tab and I've not found ^I to be a  
> suitable
> workaround here.

What are the symptoms? For me TAB fails in *shell* buffer to expand  
file names. I have reported this as a bug, the bug was closed as  
being fixed, but for me it's still there and I am missing a good  
proof ... There is also one with rather long lines as in 'ls -l  
`locate <some file name>`' or in 'set path=(...)' that I haven't  
reported yet since I also do not completely understand possible  
interaction with tcsh ... In GNU Emacs 22.2 and in 23.0.60 from  
January it works faultlessly.

--
Greetings

  Pete

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