utf text console - control-g does not work any longer

utf text console - control-g does not work any longer

[Peter Petersen]

Hello,

I decided to use Gnus in a Linux text console.

The reasons are:
- all the fonts for Emacs and/or XEmacs when under X are either too big
or too small; there are just not enough intermediate font sizes, and my
eyes are very sensitive
- when running Emacs and/or XEmacs in "gnome-terminal" the fonts look
way better and have many more intermediate steps (so font size is no
longer an issue!), but my eyes start to hurt or I get a headache (thanks
to anti-aliasing, I fear - though switching it off is no solution,
because fonts look ugly then in Emacs AND in web browsers!)



Now enough with that, let's get to my problem with Gnus in a Linux text
console:

I managed to get good utf support (for reading post in utf-8 AND for
typing in all the characters (Umlaute, tilde etc.) I want) by using
filterm and its dynafont filter.

I launch Gnus like this:

LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 exec filterm - dynafont emacs -nw --eval
"(set-keyboard-coding-system 'latin-9)" -f gnus-unplugged "$@"

(I need the "exec", by the way, when using a bash script - otherwise, it
doesn't work...)


Everything appears to be all right (reading utf-8 messages, typing in
Umlaute, euro sign etc.), but there is this one

PROBLEM:

control-g doesn't work any longer! (or in other words: keyboard-quit)


This is very bad because I often need to abort a command.
In many cases (like aborting a M-x... sequence) ESC-ESC-ESC is a good
workaround.

BUT:
When loading articles for a very large group (thousands of articles,
which will take a lot of time anyway) I can no longer abort that
command, because control-g is not being recognized any more (and
ESC-ESC-ESC doesn't work for interrupting a running command anyway).

I tried to remap control-g to e.g. F6 (function key 6) or other keys I
tried, but nothing works - it looks like control-g is something very
special and that the code of Emacs doesn't allow for changing that!


This means, running commands can no longer be interrupted/aborted when I
use a utf-8 enabled Emacs/Gnus in a Linux text console.


Does anyone have experience with this problem - or even better have a
solution?



many thanks
Peter