Hmm, emacs20 needs two presses, too, but I can understand it in this way: One press + "n" gives you "n" with tilde above - OK for a text editor.
So, I guess we will have to live with that, joerg Perkens-Golomb, Burkhard" wrote: > Same problem here. I can get the "tilde" if I press AltGr + > ClosingSquareBracket two times. Interestingly it works in Xemacs :-/ . > But no solution yet ... > > On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Joerg Johannes wrote: > > Hello List > > > > After latest sid update (yesterday), I remarked that I cannot access > > the "tilde" symbol in xterms and other programs under X any more. I > > am using a german keyboard layout, and I usually get the tilde hile > > pressing AltGr + ClosingSquareBracket on american keyboard (Just > > left of the enter key...). This is what I get from xev when > > pressing those keys: > > [...]

