problem with 4.7 and emacs21 M-x

[( Marc A. Lehmann )]

On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 08:49:53PM -0500, Joel Reed <joelwreed at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 04:11:29AM +0100,  Marc A. Lehmann  wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 09:19:27PM -0500, Joel Reed <joelwreed at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> more testing, it appears the M-w is the problem, not M-x. using emacs21 and
> urxvt-4.7, when i do a M-w (where meta for me is the escape key) emacs does
> copy the buffer, but then it inserts a "w" into the buffer as well! 
> 
> remove Mod1    = Alt_R
> remove Mod4    = Meta_L Meta_R

That is interesting you completely remove the alt/meta keys.

So I wonder, how do you type M-w, or what _is_ M-w? M-w should be alt+w on
a pc keyboard (generating esc-w).

However, it seems you are entering escape+w directly, using two distinct
keypressed, escape + w:

>     state 0x0, keycode 9 (keysym 0xff1b, Escape), same_screen YES,
>     state 0x0, keycode 25 (keysym 0x77, w), same_screen YES,
>     XLookupString gives 1 bytes:  "w"

... which is puzzling, as this correctly generates esc-w in your setup,
and rxvt-unicode should not even enter the code path where you patch. Can
you find out what escape code rxvt-unicode received (see below)?

Also, are you sure that M-w is the problem and generates the wrong
code? When you enter a multi-key sequence, maybe the problem is earlier? What
is the full sequence you try that fails?

Try:

   od -a

and then enter M-w (or the full sequence you use), followed by enter,
followed by ctrl-d until you get output from od and the prompt back.

Thanks!

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