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From: Debande%smd.ucl.ac.be@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU ("B. Debande")
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: strange behavior of ALT-graph key on SUN Type4-KBD
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Date: 19 Feb 91 18:36:30 GMT
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Hello all,

This is a strange and very annoying problem.

The machine :
I'm running GNU emacs 18.57 on a SUN-IPC / SUNOS 4.1 with a type 4 Keyboard
(european settings), all under Xwindows (X11R4) twm.

The problem :
On my keyboard, some characters as @ # must be issued by pushing a modifier
key + another key.  I had to set the Alt-graph (keycode = 126, keysym =
Mode_switch) as modifier mod1 with xmodmap, so typing Alt_graph + '-' gives '#',
and so on.
All runs well except in emacs !  There, the Alt-graph key produces the
sequence [[-1z , so I can't issue @ # ....

What I've already done :
I tried to map [[-1z to 'ignore-key : I works but I can't issue my @ # etc...
As I'm not (yet) a lisp hacker, I stayed there.  I don't know if there is
a function that allow combining keys to produce an effect.

I tried to map another key to the Mode_switch, but unfortunately the new
key mapped to Mode_switch produces the ]]-1z ....

So I suppose that somewhere in emacs the keysym Mode_switch is mapped to
]]-1z .

The question :

Can someone help me ?

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