From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Hanchrow Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: in gnome terminal, Emacs "hears" C-M-SPC as M-SPC Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 09:03:40 -0700 Message-ID: <87odscw8mb.fsf@offby1.atm01.sea.blarg.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1161015530 9305 80.91.229.2 (16 Oct 2006 16:18:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 16:18:50 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 16 18:18:48 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GZVAe-0001z6-Ob for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 18:18:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GZVAe-0005k3-9E for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 12:18:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GZV1E-0000AS-5t for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 12:08:48 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GZV1B-0008Vz-38 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 12:08:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GZV1A-0008Vj-T6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 12:08:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GZVAJ-0001Hj-Ve for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 12:18:12 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GZV0l-0008Ig-Ut for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 18:08:20 +0200 Original-Received: from q-static-138-125.avvanta.com ([206.124.138.125]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 18:08:19 +0200 Original-Received: from offby1 by q-static-138-125.avvanta.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 18:08:19 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: q-static-138-125.avvanta.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.51 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:xOereo7M5kGJWrwdZwRE3RqMevU= X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:38078 Archived-At: >>>>> "Sam" == Sam Peterson writes: Sam> What of Esc C-SPC? That works fine, but I'm too lazy to type it. Sam> Alt is a troublesome key in Window managers. In some, perhaps; but I've tamed metacity by telling it not to treat Alt specially. Sam> ... if that works then it's something to do with either Sam> gnome-terminal or the Window Manager capturing it. I'm 99% sure it's gnome-terminal. -- [Dijkstra's] great strength is that he is uncompromising. It would make him physically ill to think of programming in C++. -- Donald E. Knuth