Re: emacs21: numpad numbers don't work anymore with shift

[Filip Van Raemdonck]

On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 09:27:33AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org>
> > Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 16:53:02 -0600
> > 
> > Just forwarding a bug report about the numpad.  Looks like emacs
> > doesn't distinguish between S-<end> and <end>, though xev shows that X
> > still reports them as separate keys (KP_END and KP_1, for example).
> 
> I don't think this is a bug: that's how Emacs is supposed to behave;
> see the bindings for S-kp-* keys in lisp/bindings.el.

Why? It behaved like that with emacs20, and every other X application I use
behaves that way, too (Rob tried some more and he discovered a few that
didn't, but I'd argue these are broken as well ;-)

> Of course, this is curable by rebinding S-kp-0 etc. in ~/.emacs.

I suppose I'll do that for now.


Regards,

Filip

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