[OS X Emacs] input methods in emacs 23 ?

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 07.02.2010 um 13:55 schrieb Jean-Christophe Helary:

>> Do you have some "input method" active? Which in Emacs and which in  
>> Mac OS X? Does it work to input in *scratch* buffer C-q Opt-¥? What  
>> do you see? What do you see after typing the same when you change  
>> Emacs' and Mac OS X's "input methods?"
>
> It seems that I have no input method active in Emacs and that the  
> OSX method is the US standard on my JIS keyboard (ie French through  
> Alt+keys),
>
> C-q Opt-¥ gives me \ in *scratch*

Did you try to type C-q C-\, i.e., C-q Ctrl-Opt-¥? I just found that  
when I type C-q Ctrl-Opt-Shift-7 (or C-q Ctrl-Opt-/) this is not  
handled by Emacs.app but reported as: "<C-S-268632092> is undefined"  
and an ASCII NUL, ^@, is inserted. Is this the same case for you, too?  
You can view the code, which briefly appears in mini-buffer, by typing  
C-h l...

This indeed looks like an NS bug. (My Emacs.app is some weeks old,  
though.) Could you report it, adding also my description?

In GNU Emacs 23.1.90.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin9.8.0, NS apple- 
appkit-949.54)
  of 2010-01-07 on Latsche.local
Windowing system distributor `Apple', version 10.3.949
configured using `configure  '--without-sound' '--without-dbus' '-- 
without-pop' '--with-ns' '--disable-ns-self-contained' '--x-libraries=/ 
usr/X11/libs' '--x-includes=/usr/X11/include/X11' '--enable- 
locallisppath=/Library/Application Support/Emacs/calendar23:/Library/ 
Application Support/Emacs' 'CFLAGS=-ggdb3 -Wno-pointer-sign -H -pipe - 
fPIC -mcpu=7450 -mtune=7450 -Os' 'CC=gcc-4.2''


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   Pete

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