From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Single space movement for key press in editor Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 04:11:12 GMT Organization: Looking for work Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1073881201 16408 80.91.224.253 (12 Jan 2004 04:20:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 04:20:01 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 12 05:19:55 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AftYR-0001yx-00 for ; Mon, 12 Jan 2004 05:19:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AfuRO-0007P5-09 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Jan 2004 00:16:42 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!attbi_feed3!attbi.com!attbi_s03.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.1 (PPC) X-Copies-To: never Original-Lines: 22 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.34.109.233 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net Original-X-Trace: attbi_s03 1073880672 24.34.109.233 (Mon, 12 Jan 2004 04:11:12 GMT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 04:11:12 GMT Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:119992 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:15934 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:15934 In article , "Jane and Carl Trachte" wrote: > Hello. > I've been happily using EMACS for about 8 months now, mostly as a code > editor for C, LISP, and SQL. It's worked great on Windows and Linux, so > much so that I'm hooked. Recently I loaded Mandrake 9.2 Linux on my > Linux partition, replacing Red Hat 8 (the computer is an HP Pavillion, > Pentium 4 processor). The EMACS installation that came with Mandrake > has keys that only work once when you hold them down (if I type in C-n, > holding both keys down, the cursor stops and waits for me to press C-n > again to move down another line). Is this something that can be > controlled by setting a variable in the .Emacs file or is it a quirk of > the OS? Thanks in advance for helping out a newb. > CBT This is a quirk of the OS or X server. If you're using X, there's an "xset" option that controls key repeat rate. -- Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA