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On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 08:35 -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
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Gaetan Nadon wrote:
> They are ignored and causes serious misalignement.
> Things like '\\n\\' and '\\\\'
They are for displaying to the end user, as they are required in the files
that these are examples of.
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I missed that.
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The extra \'ing is for cpp - if you switch to
sed, only one level of \ should be needed, but removal is not acceptable.
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As it is today in git, is this what the user is supposed to see on the terminal (copy/paste):<BR>
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<B>RESOURCES FILE</B>
The <U>Xresources</U> file is loaded onto the display as a resource database
using <U>xrdb</U>. As the authentication widget reads this database before
starting up, it usually contains parameters for that widget:
xlogin*login.translations: #overrideCtrl<Key>R: abort-display()\n<Key>F1: set-session-argument(failsafe) finish-field()\n<Key>Return: set-session-argument() finish-field()
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The terminal wraps at 80 chars. <BR>
This around line 753.<BR>
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Similar output around line 962. One long line with \n
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Ctrl<Key>H: delete-previous-character() \nCtrl<Key>D:delete-character() \n [...]
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I looked at <A HREF="http://linux.die.net/man/1/xdm">http://linux.die.net/man/1/xdm</A> and it is very similar.<BR>
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From the app/xdm/config it looks like this is how it should look on the terminal:
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xlogin*login.translations: #override \
Ctrl<Key>R: abort-display()\n\
<Key>F1: set-session-argument(failsafe) finish-field()\n\
<Key>Delete: delete-character()\n\
<Key>Left: move-backward-character()\n\
<Key>Right: move-forward-character()\n\
<Key>Home: move-to-begining()\n\
<Key>End: move-to-end()\n\
Ctrl<Key>KP_Enter: set-session-argument(failsafe) finish-field()\n\
<Key>KP_Enter: set-session-argument() finish-field()\n\
Ctrl<Key>Return: set-session-argument(failsafe) finish-field()\n\
<Key>Return: set-session-argument() finish-field()
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I am left with the impression that this never worked correctly.<BR>
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Thanks
Gaetan
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