From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Help with setting a key (C-<right> moving a full word to the right)
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 23:00:05 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <838v2lu1x6.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ip1psptx.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se>
> From: Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>
> Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 21:06:34 +0200
>
> > (global-set-key [C-right] (quote forward-word))
>
> That doesn't work for me. When I press C-right, only <right> is
> reported. I'm using GNU Emacs 23.4.1 in a Linux VT.
I don't know what is a "Linux VT", but I suspect that it's a text-mode
terminal. In which case Emacs simply doesn't get reported that
C-right was pressed. Try "C-h l" (that's the letter ell, not the
digit one), and see if Emacs at all sees the Ctrl modifier. It
doesn't in most text terminals.
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2013-06-07 19:06 ` Help with setting a key (C-<right> moving a full word to the right) Emanuel Berg
2013-06-07 20:00 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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2013-06-07 20:37 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-06-08 3:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2013-06-08 16:28 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-06-09 0:46 ` Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro
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2013-06-09 1:29 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-06-07 3:20 Max Rubin
2013-06-07 7:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-06-07 7:26 ` Jambunathan K
2013-06-28 16:00 ` Max Rubin
2013-06-28 16:38 ` Peter Dyballa
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