Bug#247766: Question about X-Resources

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

Dear X maintainers,

Years ago we got a bug report that multiple specifications of the
same resources is not possible for xdvi:

<snip>
I invoke the actual binary, just in case the wrapper is screwing up
the arguments:

/usr/bin/xdvi.bin -xrm 'XDvi.mainTranslations: #override \
  "x":quit()' -xrm 'XDvi.mainTranslations: #override "]":quit()' \
  -xrm 'XDvi.mainTranslations: #override "m":quit()' test.dvi

That should make the 'x' and ']' and 'm' keys quit.  In fact, only
the 'm' key and the default 'q' key quit.
<snap>

The maintainer of xdvi argued that this behavior would be correct:
obviously, multiple specifications for the same resource name
will cause a clash. Doing a similar thing with ~/.Xdefaults shows
similar issues
(http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=247766#10)

Could you clarify which behavior is correct?

H.
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