From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se (Johan =?utf-8?Q?Bockg=C3=A5rd?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: global-set-key, error: Invalid modifier in string Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 17:56:05 +0200 Organization: Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Message-ID: References: <1187327326.366474.138940@o80g2000hse.googlegroups.com> <1187364053.751956.181150@22g2000hsm.googlegroups.com> <1187365216.282417.187430@k79g2000hse.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1187541638 14182 80.91.229.12 (19 Aug 2007 16:40:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 16:40:38 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 19 18:40:37 2007 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 1IMnpN-0006Ly-0H for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Aug 2007 18:40:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IMnpM-0005nP-GY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Aug 2007 12:40:36 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed1.swip.net!swipnet!newsfeed.sunet.se!news01.sunet.se!129.16.222.141.MISMATCH!gide.ita.chalmers.se!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 23 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: gamma02.me.chalmers.se Original-X-Trace: gide.ita.chalmers.se 1187538965 23909 129.16.50.72 (19 Aug 2007 15:56:05 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@gide.ita.chalmers.se Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 15:56:05 +0000 (UTC) Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:WeP4gP1ws+e8PK+zGw9x3vbQtuE= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:151119 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:46692 Archived-At: John writes: > On Aug 17, 11:20 am, John 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