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From: bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se (Johan Bockgård)
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: global-set-key, error: Invalid modifier in string
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 17:56:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <yoijodh3ikmi.fsf@gamma02.me.chalmers.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1187365216.282417.187430@k79g2000hse.googlegroups.com

John <jmg3000@gmail.com> writes:

> On Aug 17, 11:20 am, John <jmg3...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I'm not familiar with the differences between ascii and non-ascii ctrl
>> characters, but using kbd fixed the problem. :)
>
> ... but I'm beginning to *get* familiar, since they don't seem to work
> when using Emacs in my terminal window over ssh.

Yes, normally terminals don't know about non-ASCII control characters.

You can make xterm recognize these keys by using

   XTerm*modifyOtherKeys:  1

in ~/.Xdefaults.

(If you have a recent CVS version of Emacs, it will try to turn this
feature on automatically.)

-- 
Johan Bockgård

  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-19 15:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-17  5:08 global-set-key, error: Invalid modifier in string John
2007-08-17  8:17 ` Peter Dyballa
2007-08-17 10:13 ` Johan Bockgård
2007-08-17 15:20   ` John
2007-08-17 15:40     ` John
2007-08-19 15:56       ` Johan Bockgård [this message]
2007-08-17 18:16     ` Emilio Lopes
2007-08-20  6:12       ` Stefan Monnier
     [not found] ` <mailman.4897.1187338712.32220.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-08-17 15:08   ` John

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