From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "B. T. Raven" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: .emacs poser Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 18:01:02 -0600 Organization: NewsGuy - Unlimited Usenet $23.95 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1387238720 23147 80.91.229.3 (17 Dec 2013 00:05:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 00:05:20 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 17 01:05:27 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VsiA6-0003Yk-GM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Dec 2013 01:05:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58897 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VsiA6-0002ew-0z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Dec 2013 19:05:22 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!peer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!spln!extra.newsguy.com!newsp.newsguy.com!news1 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 41 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: p6715d7052e448f1b35fbd0759e5fd9781c2935a0e58a8786.newsdawg.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120907 Thunderbird/15.0.1 X-Received-Bytes: 2199 X-Received-Body-CRC: 1840120337 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:202757 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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 Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:95026 Archived-At: In my emacs I have these global-set-key forms: .... (global-set-key "\C-cg" (lambda () (interactive) (insert ?° ))) (global-set-key "\C-ch" (lambda () (interactive) (insert ?·))) (global-set-key "\C-c-" (lambda () (interactive) (insert ?— ))) (global-set-key "\C-cI" (lambda () (interactive) (insert ?‽ ))) ;; ;; ;; capital eye interrobang (global-set-key "\C-cL" (lambda () (interactive) (insert ?£ ))) (global-set-key "\C-cm" (lambda () (interactive) (insert ?ˉ))) ;;(global-set-key "\C-cM" (lambda () (interactive) (insert ?̄✠))) (global-set-key "\C-cp" (lambda () (interactive) (insert ?¶ ))) (global-set-key "\C-cr" (lambda () (interactive) (insert ?® ))) (global-set-key "\C-cs" (lambda () (interactive) (insert ?§ ))) (global-set-key "\C-ci" (lambda() (interactive) (insert (format-time-string "%a %Y ..... These and many others work fine (in w32 native v. 23.3) but any attempt to evaluate "\C-cM" (capital M) truncates the rest of the .emacs and wakes the Debugger: Debugger entered--Lisp error: (invalid-read-syntax "?") read(#) preceding-sexp() eval-last-sexp-1(nil) eval-last-sexp(nil) call-interactively(eval-last-sexp nil nil) recursive-edit() byte-code("\306 @\307=\203! ...... the glyph shown is the Maltese cross but any character after the ? fails to work in the same way. Other capitals are distinguished, just not upper case M. Does any of you have any idea whats going on here. With just that line commented out the .emacs loads with no problem. Thanks, Ed