From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Wittmann Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Special character Emacs Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 07:11:10 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <05937593-f368-4005-a3ba-7b97fd37b4d0@d45g2000hsc.googlegroups.com> References: <2236b1ea-52a3-4377-a451-ae971fed9bb4@x41g2000hsb.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 1213454499 26218 80.91.229.12 (14 Jun 2008 14:41:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:41:39 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 14 16:42:23 2008 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 1K7WxI-0004Pu-MA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 16:42:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50053 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K7WwU-0001EJ-3x for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 10:41:22 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!d45g2000hsc.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 30 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 77.177.109.238 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1213452670 29749 127.0.0.1 (14 Jun 2008 14:11:10 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:11:10 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: d45g2000hsc.googlegroups.com; posting-host=77.177.109.238; posting-account=yUmwVwoAAABFmqVwHioMJWI_X8_QIYhO User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008060309 Firefox/3.0,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:159468 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:54822 Archived-At: On 8 Jun., 22:18, Nikolaj Schumacher wrote: > Andreas Wittmann wrote: > > it says "" how can i define it? > > As I guessed earlier, your ^ is a dead key. =A0(Next time, please post any= > error messages right away.) > > Most likely you didn't want it to be a dead key in the first place. =A0You= > can fix that by selecting the eliminate-dead-keys keyboard layout > variant in Ubuntu. > > However, in my clean install of Ubuntu, Emacs 22 handles dead keys just > fine. =A0(That is, it ignores dead-circumflex.) =A0Please verify that the > error occurs with emacs -Q, and please answer my earlier question on > whether you run emacs from the terminal. > > regards, > Nikolaj Schumacher Hi Nikolaj, i run emacs with "emacs-snapshot-gtk" from the terminal. Starting with "emacs-snapshot-gtk -Q" has as far as i can see no effect. where is the eliminate-dead-keys keyboard? best regards Andreas