Re: [Bug: 21.5-b20] no help on x-compose's keymaps

giacomo boffi wrote: > i use US keyboards from day 0, so i need an input method to have > those èá in my italian texts --- when using XEmacs in X the method i > use is x-compose > > the keysym used by x-compose to start its keymap is multikey > > previous XEmacs versions (21.4.x) and older betas all supported help > on x-compose keymaps, i.e., starting a key sequence with multikey > followed by another letter and pressing C-h pops a help window with > all the available completions (just like it is with all the keymaps) > > when i try the same thing in recent betas, i get no help window Are you sure that this is an XEmacs issue? Or, more precisely, are you sure that x-compose is actually being used? I had the same experience (i.e. Compose C-h used to bring up a list of bindings, then it stopped working). It turned out that the reason was that I had started using a newer version of XFree86 which did its own composition, so XEmacs only ever got to see the final (composed) event, whereas before it used to get the individual events and compose them itself. E.g. If I do: M-: (next-command-event) RET Compose 1 2 I get: #<keypress-event onehalf>