Re: [MIT-Scheme-devel] bucky bits vs control characters in X input events

[Chris Hanson]

Taylor R Campbell wrote:
> Right now, Edwin's X interface explicitly discards the bucky bit for
> control; instead it just uses the underlying control character, which
> X automatically supplies, but this doesn't work for keys with no ASCII
> control-character equivalents, to input which one must use the
> explicit prefix (C-^ or C-z).  Is there a reason that Edwin doesn't
> discard the control bit only if the underlying character is already a
> control character?  Changing it to do this is trivial.

There's no good reason for this.  Go ahead and change it.