zap-to-char bug

This bug report will be sent to the XEmacs Development Team, not to your local site managers!! Please write in English, because the XEmacs maintainers do not have translators to read other languages for them. Please describe as succinctly as possible: - What happened. - What you thought should have happened. - Precisely what you were doing at the time. Please also include any C or lisp back-traces that you may have. ================================================================ Dear Bug Team! I am have a recurring problem with xemacs interpreting "z" as "M-z", and performing the zap-to-char operation. At least 50% of the time when I am typing a word with a "z" in it, this gets interpreted as "M-z", and if I am typing fast, the result is a zap-to-char. For example, I am developing code that uses the variable name "size", and many times when I type in s-i-z-e,, what I get is s-i, then deletion to the next "e". This is not 100% repeatable, but I know that it is not a "fat fingers" problem, because I have on numerous occasions fixed the problem by doing "C-x u", then typed "z", slowly, only to see "zap-to-char" appear in the mode line. This is very annoying! You can contact me directly at johnk(a)qualcomm.com I am running RH 8.0, and xemacs is the latest stcok RH rpm ================================================================ System Info to help track down your bug: --------------------------------------- uname -a: Linux astest 2.4.9-e.8smp #1 SMP Fri Jul 19 15:38:30 EDT 2002 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux ./configure 'i386-redhat-linux-gnu' '--prefix=/usr' '--exec-prefix=/usr' '--bindir=/usr/bin' '--datadir=/usr/share' '--libdir=/usr/lib' '--mandir=/usr/share/man/man1' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--with-gpm=no' '--with-sound=native' '--with-pop' '--mail-locking=lockf' '--with-clash-detection' '--debug=no' '--error-checking=none' '--with-mule=yes' '--with-database=berkdb' '--with-ldap=yes' '--with-hesiod=no' '--with-canna=yes' '--with-wnn=yes' '--with-widgets=motif' '--with-menubars=lucid' '--with-scrollbars=lucid' '--with-dialogs=motif' '--with-xim=xlib' '--with-msw=no' '--with-xfs=yes' '--pdump' XEmacs 21.4.8 "Honest Recruiter" configured for `i386-redhat-linux'. Compilation / Installation: Source code location: /usr/src/build/141167-i386/BUILD/xemacs-21.4.8 Installation prefix: /usr Operating system description file: `s/linux.h' Machine description file: `m/intel386.h' Compiler: gcc -O2 -march=i386 -mcpu=i686 Relocating allocator for buffers: no GNU version of malloc: yes - Using Doug Lea's new malloc from the GNU C Library. Window System: Compiling in support for the X window system: - X Windows headers location: /usr/X11R6/include - X Windows libraries location: /usr/X11R6/lib - Handling WM_COMMAND properly. Using Lucid menubars. Using Lucid scrollbars. Using Motif dialog boxes. Using Motif native widgets. TTY: Compiling in support for ncurses. Images: Compiling in support for GIF images (builtin). Compiling in support for XPM images. Compiling in support for PNG images. Compiling in support for JPEG images. Compiling in support for TIFF images. Sound: Compiling in support for sound (native). Databases: Compiling in support for Berkeley database. Compiling in support for LDAP. Compiling in support for PostgreSQL. - Using PostgreSQL header file: libpq-fe.h - Using PostgreSQL V7 bindings. Internationalization: Compiling in support for Mule (multi-lingual Emacs). Compiling in support for XIM (X11R5+ I18N input method). - Using raw Xlib to provide XIM support. - Using XFontSet to provide bilingual menubar. Compiling in support for Canna on Mule. Compiling in support for the WNN input method on Mule. Mail: Compiling in support for POP mail retrieval. Compiling in support for "lockf" mail spool file locking method. Other Features: Inhibiting IPv6 canonicalization at startup. Compiling in support for dynamic shared object modules. Using the new portable dumper. 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code-cmds gutter-items menubar-items x-menubar mode-motion mouse itimer auto-save lisp-mode easymenu iso8859-1 page buff-menu lib-complete cus-file derived frame text-props obsolete cus-start custom widget cl-extra mini-cl cl cl-19 packages backquote very-early-lisp postgresqlv7 postgresql CANNA file-coding wnn mule lucid-scrollbars cut-buffer lucid-menubars motif-dialogs x c-balloon-help tty-frames tty toolbar native-sound scrollbar unix-processes multicast network-streams subprocesses modules menu-accelerator-support menubar berkeley-db md5 xemacs xim gutter tiff png gif jpeg xpm xbm lisp-float-type linux dialog devices window-system base64) Recent keystrokes: ----------------- f SPC r e t r a n s m i t SPC C-x C-x C-x u C-x u M-z ! button1 button1up button1 button1up z e SPC o f SPC r e t r a n s m t i SPC BS BS BS BS BS BS BS BS BS BS BS t x SPC w i n d o w misc-user w i n - s i M-z e C-x u z e button1 button1up M-z M-x button1 button1up M-x r e p o r t - x e m a c s - b u g RET Recent messages (most recent first): ----------------------------------- Loading xemacsbug...done Loading xemacsbug... Key read has no ASCII equivalent #<keypress-event meta-X> Zap to char: Zap to char: Search failed: "!" Zap to char: No mark set in this buffer Zap to char: Loading cc-mode...done Loading cc-mode... Loading efs-cu...done Loading efs-cu... Reading directory /home/johnk/projects/datalinkm3/...done Reading directory /home/johnk/projects/datalinkm3/... Loading env...done Loading env... Loading dired...done Loading dired-mule...done Loading dired-mule...