From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to change keys for uncomment (C-u C-c C-c)? Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 18:07:55 +0000 Organization: muc.de e.V. -- private internet access Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1114204298 28668 80.91.229.2 (22 Apr 2005 21:11:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 21:11:38 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 22 23:11:37 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DP5Pl-0007vI-Qc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 23:10:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DP5Uk-0007wl-Ne for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 17:15:26 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news-fra1.dfn.de!news-stu1.dfn.de!news.belwue.de!informatik.tu-muenchen.de!news.muc.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 37 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: acm.muc.de Original-X-Trace: marvin.muc.de 1114203697 1208 193.149.49.134 (22 Apr 2005 21:01:37 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news-admin@muc.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 22 Apr 2005 21:01:37 GMT User-Agent: tin/1.4.5-20010409 ("One More Nightmare") (UNIX) (Linux/2.0.35 (i686)) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:130400 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:25971 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:25971 Mathias Dahl wrote on Fri, 22 Apr 2005 16:53:56 +0200: > I don't know about you other guys, but something seems fishy with JS' > .emacs file. When I read the post above, each supposed-to-be space > character has a magenta coloured backlshash in front of it, suggestion > some special or control-character. > I won't paste his text here again (it is above), but if you do not see > what I see, this is how it looks (drawn in normal ascii): > (add-hook 'this-major-mode-hook > \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ (lambda\ () > \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ (local-set-key\ "\C-cc"\ 'uncomment-region))) > When I put the cursor on one of those and used C-x =, this is what I > got: > Char: \ (04240, 2208, 0x8a0, file 0xA0) point=961 of 1442 (67%) column > 0 iso-8995-1 0xA0 is "non-break space". Perhaps JS's newsreader (Knode) is "trying to be helpful" in pre-empting the possibility of the line being broken up by filling. > Note: I had to use normal ascii to be sure that the "backslash-space" > char above was displayed correctly. It is indeed only one character. > Anyway, just a thought. > /Mathias -- Alan Mackenzie (Munich, Germany) Email: aacm@muuc.dee; to decode, wherever there is a repeated letter (like "aa"), remove half of them (leaving, say, "a").