This discussion recently came up on emacs.stackexchange.. http://emacs.stackexchange.com/a/21524/115 The emacs manual (C-h i g (emacs) Modifier Keys) says the below: "A -modified alphabetical character is always considered case-insensitive: Emacs always treats ‘C-A’ as ‘C-a’, ‘C-B’ as ‘C-b’, and so forth. The reason for this is historical." But I am able to bind something like (global-set-key (kbd "C-S-n") #'previous-line) and have C-n and "C-N" call different commands. Does that piece of information about Control-modified alphabetical characters need correction or clarification? Thanks.