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From: joe@bwdlh111.BNR.CA (Joe Waddington)
Subject: Re: mwm vs. emacs
Message-ID: <1990Dec6.010136.24732@bwdls61.bnr.ca>
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Reply-To: joe@bwdlh111.BNR.CA (Joe Waddington)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.
References:  <754@parcplace.com>
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Date: Thu, 6 Dec 90 01:01:36 GMT

In article <754@parcplace.com>, khaw@parcplace.com (Mike Khaw) writes:
|>Mwm on HP9000s3xx/HPUX 7.0 wants to reserve DELETE to popup window menus.
|>GNU Emacs wants to use DELETE for deleting the character left of the
|>cursor and BACKSPACE (control-H) for online help.
|>
|>Is there a way to make mwm not use DELETE for the window menu; e.g., an
|>"xmodmap" incantation, or a .Xdefaults entry?
|>-- 
|>Mike Khaw
|>ParcPlace Systems, Inc., 1550 Plymouth St., Mountain View, CA 94043
|>Domain=khaw@parcplace.com, UUCP=...!{uunet,sun,decwrl}!parcplace!khaw
  
Look in your .mwmrc file.  There is a key_binding there for 
Shift<Key>Escape:       post.wmenu            (from memory)

If you change this (or delete) then your problem will go away.
I changed mine to 
Meta<Key>Escape:       post.wmenu

Hope this helps ,

Joe
        
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