dead-circumflex with XFree86

I was very happy to see that my french canadian keyboard worked correctly with XEmacs without much tweaking, but there was a single little thing: the circumflex key didn't work (it complained "dead-circumflex not defined" in the minibuffer). I search around and found that x11/x-init.el and x11/x-compose.el referred to that key as dead-circum instead of dead-circumflex. I tried changing those files (with a *very* limited knowledge of ELisp!), but XEmacs seems to ignore my changes (well, in any case I don't see any change). I ended up expanding the x-define-dead-key macro in my .emacs like this: (when (x-keysym-on-keyboard-p 'dead-circumflex) (define-key function-key-map [dead-circumflex] 'compose-circumflex-map)) Which do work. Maybe there is some .elc recompiling issue I am missing or XEmacs "freezing" issue or whatever. I built my own customized RPM (I use Red Hat 5.2 on Intel) from other RPMs I found on the net (I use Window Maker, so I wanted session management), but my experience ends there. My impression of the whole thing is that it takes heck of a lot of time to compile! ;-) Thanks for such a cool editor!!! P.S.: I am not subscribed to this mailing list (if this is one), so please CC: any replies to my address! Thanks! -- Pierre Phaneuf Ludus Design, http://ludusdesign.com/ "First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win." -- Gandhi