backslash escaping shift key?

[martin f krafft]

also sprach martin f krafft <madduck at madduck.net> [2007.10.11.2016 +0100]:
>   press \
>   release \
>   press <shift>
>     press d
>     release d
>   release <shift>

Thanks to Daniel Stone for pointing me at
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12509, which seems
related.

See the following xev output and note how the Shift key only
registers after the d KeyRelease event:

KeyPress event, serial 29, synthetic NO, window 0x4200001,
    root 0x5c, subw 0x0, time 1288285946, (104,90), root:(1622,108),
    state 0x10, keycode 51 (keysym 0x5c, backslash), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (5c) "\"
    XmbLookupString gives 1 bytes: (5c) "\"
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 32, synthetic NO, window 0x4200001,
    root 0x5c, subw 0x0, time 1288285995, (104,90), root:(1622,108),
    state 0x10, keycode 51 (keysym 0x5c, backslash), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (5c) "\"
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyPress event, serial 32, synthetic NO, window 0x4200001,
    root 0x5c, subw 0x0, time 1288286060, (104,90), root:(1622,108),
    state 0x10, keycode 40 (keysym 0x64, d), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (64) "d"
    XmbLookupString gives 1 bytes: (64) "d"
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 32, synthetic NO, window 0x4200001,
    root 0x5c, subw 0x0, time 1288286122, (104,90), root:(1622,108),
    state 0x10, keycode 40 (keysym 0x64, d), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (64) "d"
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyPress event, serial 32, synthetic NO, window 0x4200001,
    root 0x5c, subw 0x0, time 1288286154, (104,90), root:(1622,108),
    state 0x10, keycode 50 (keysym 0xffe1, Shift_L), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 32, synthetic NO, window 0x4200001,
    root 0x5c, subw 0x0, time 1288286154, (104,90), root:(1622,108),
    state 0x11, keycode 50 (keysym 0xffe1, Shift_L), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
    XFilterEvent returns: False

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