Re: Xfree86 and the Meta key (+patch)

[Jan D.]

> > > 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 ?
> >
> > If that's true, we could be forced to to issue a 21.4 bug fix release
> > (based on 21.3) real soon !?
>
> I run xorg 6.8.1 and don't see any problems.

Me too.  But it works only because Emacs does not find a Meta key and
then uses the Alt key as Meta.  Thus you can't have both a Meta and an 
Alt.

There is no difference between 21.3 and CVS for this problem.

        Jan D.