From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Francis Moreau Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: C-M-. (find-tag-regexp) is not working Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 03:13:58 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <1c5a0fce-3c0e-4fbe-84c9-3076485b0299@j39g2000yqn.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1237459302 5723 80.91.229.12 (19 Mar 2009 10:41:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:41:42 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 19 11:42:57 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LkFi3-0004zM-JO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:42:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40914 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LkFgg-0001Qy-7g for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 06:41:22 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!v15g2000yqn.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 29 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.215.4.82 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1237457638 11631 127.0.0.1 (19 Mar 2009 10:13:58 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:13:58 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: v15g2000yqn.googlegroups.com; posting-host=213.215.4.82; posting-account=ekTE0goAAADiVCThPmo4ph0C5bTUhQOx User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.7) Gecko/2009030503 Fedora/3.0.7-1.fc9 Firefox/3.0.7,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) X-HTTP-Via: 1.1 grimoire.wyplay.int:3128 (squid/2.5.STABLE14) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:167790 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:63082 Archived-At: Hello, On Mar 19, 9:43=A0am, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Type C-h c (`describe-key-briefly'), followed by C-M-.. =A0(That's C-M-. > followed by a full stop. =A0You don't type the full stop; I typed it to > indicate the end of my sentence. =A0Yikes! :-) =A0This will show you what > key sequence Emacs saw. > emacs says: "M-. runs the command find-tag" Note that I really did type C-M-. > Maybe your keyboard hasn't been set up to generate proper key codes > for C-M-. =A0Try C-h l `view-lossage' after typing M-. and C-M-.. =A0This > will show you what raw key codes Emacs actually received. it said: "ESC ." for both which is not really surprising. So it looks like my keyboard hasn't been set up to generate proper key codes. Could you tell me how to do that ? > Also, please tell us your operating system and environment. sorry it's on Linux, Fedora 9 thanks