Bug#274103: xlibs: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 broke Meta for Emacs
reassign 274103 emacs21
merge 255286 274103
thanks
On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 09:50:59PM +0200, Roland Mas wrote:
> Then came along the dreaded 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8, last night. Its changelog
> mentioned stuff related to altwin, so I was delighted. I promptly
> upgraded, restarted X and Emacs, and was shocked to discover that it
> was more broken than the day before: Alt-stuff is back to generating
> Alt-stuff, which is cool since I can now goto-line and boxquote-region
> and the like in one key combo, but Leftwin-stuff is still generating
> the hubristic Hyper-Super-Meta-stuff combo. So I'm left with an Emacs
> without a Meta key, which means I have to use Esc+w, Esc+q, Esc+y,
> etc. I'd like it if I could go back to §1 please...
Hi Roland,
there is an untested patch in #255286 (could someone test it?) to solve
this issue, I sent a message to a dedicated mailing list
http://lists.debian.org/debian-emacsen/2004/09/msg00019.html
but it seems that your best option is to disable XKB for now.
Denis
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