#409 Number key problem with Mandrake 10, NEdit 5.3 & 5.4

[Anonymous]

Our system administrator just upgraded my system from
Mandrake 9.2 to Madrake 10. Since that moment, I am not
able anymore to use the character "3" from the main
keyboard (you know: above the letters): it causes nedit
to take all CPU resources. However, when I use the "3"
of the numerical part of the keyboard (you know, near
the NumLock), then there's no problem...

[Eddy De Greef]

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Please send us the first 8 lines from "Help > Version" (or the
output from "nedit -V") which will give us extra information to
help us reproduce your problem.

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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I get the same type of problem with mandrake 10.0, but it is
the "6" character that I can't obtain (instead I obtain "_").
nedit -V
NEdit 5.4
Nov 20, 2003

Built on: Linux, 386, GNU C
Built at: Nov 23 2003, 17:08:19
With Motif: 2.1.30 [@(#)Motif Version 2.1.30]
Running Motif: 2.1 [unknown]
Server: Mandrake Linux (XFree86 4.3, patch level
32.1.100mdk) 40300001
Visual: 24-bit TrueColor (ID 0x23, Default)
Locale: fr_FR

[Nathan Gray]

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Can you please try NEdit 5.5RC2 (see www.nedit.org for a link) and tell
us if the problem remains?

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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OK, I made some tests with the 5.4 and 5.5RC2 versions (the
binary for linux). Actually the problem remains with 5.5RC2.
It stills write an underscore instead of 6 if I use my 5.4
.nedit file. If I cancel this file, then I get nothing when
pressing "Shift + -" (I have a french AZERTY keyboard).
Using the numeric pad I can get the "6" character both in
5.4 and 5.5RC2.
However the "Shift + -" combination works in the dialogs (I
tested "find" and "wrap margin ...").
To summarize, this character "6" (= "Shift + -") does not
appear only in the main window both in 5.4 and 5.5RC2.

[Eddy De Greef]

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This is weird. Shift+- translates to an underscore on a
qwerty keyboard. Somehow, the keyboard mappings appear to be
mixed up. It is unlikely that this is an NEdit problem,
because NEdit does not deal with this kind of mappings. I
suspect that it is a Motif or an X problem.

Does the problem remain if you switch to another locale? Ie.
try:
LANG=C nedit

(or setenv LANG C; nedit)

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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Yes the problem remains. I checked the right LANG setting
using the shell execution in nedit. Anyway, this is only a
nedit problem because I have not this behavior in any other
application, e.g. kwrite, kedit, xedit, gvim ...

By the way, there is another "strange" behavior of nedit.
When I open a dialog box such as Save as... or Open..., and
select a file name in the Files window, the selected name is
never highlighted. However I know it is selected because if
I click twice on it, nedit opens the right file.

nicolas[dot]ferre[at]up[dot]univ-mrs[dot]fr