Re: with-pgtk: C-; turns into plain ';'

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hello, Tomas.

On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 07:36:21 +0100, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 07:43:34PM -0800, T.V Raman wrote:

> > After building from head today with --with-pgtk,

> > I've now lost keys such as C-;, C-, etc under X -- they just produce
> > the key minus the modifier bit, So c-; just generates ";". Bug or 
> > intentional?

> Is that the case for C-c, C-x and friends?

> I.e. for "normal" letters?

> Note that TTYs have no way to represent C-; and friends.

But they do.  It just takes a bit of work.  loadkeys is your friend.
I've had C-; on my Linux console for over 20 years, now.  As well as
loadkeys, you need to set up Emacs with stuff in the function-key-map to
handle the modified keys.  It works well.

> You ended up, perhaps, with a TTY build?

> Cheers
> -- 
> t

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).