Re: Xfree86 and the Meta key (+patch)

[Jérôme Marant]

Quoting "Kim F. Storm" <address@hidden>:

> Jérôme Marant <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > The recent XFree86 recently broke the meta key for Emacs.
> > Some debian Xkb specialist worked on the problem and issued a patch. It has
> > been tested and we need to apply it before Debian sarge is release.
>
> Are you saying that all releases of Emacs, including 21.3, will
> not run correctly on current XFree86 ?

>From now on, Emacs will have such a problem with upcoming XFree86
and Xorg releases. Rob and I really need to apply a fix for Debian
quickly. So, if you have a better fix, please tell us.

> If that's true, we could be forced to to issue a 21.4 bug fix release
> (based on 21.3) real soon !?

I don't know. I guess it will be fixed in the trunk like the other
bugs.

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Jérôme Marant