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On Aug 17, 11:20 am, John <jmg3...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Aug 17, 6:13 am, bojohan+n...@dd.chalmers.se (Johan Bockg=E5rd)
> wrote:
>
> > John <jmg3...@gmail.com> writes:
> > > Seems like some of the Alt keys are working, but the ones with "\C-"
> > > in them are causing the error.
>
> > Strings can't contain non-ASCII control characters. Use (kbd "C-.") or
> > [?\C-.] etc instead.
>
> I'm not familiar with the differences between ascii and non-ascii ctrl
> characters, but using kbd fixed the problem. :)

.=2E. but I'm beginning to *get* familiar, since they don't seem to work
when using Emacs in my terminal window over ssh.