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From: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>
To: Daniel Sousa <daniel@sousa.cc>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: I can't use Alt+Shift
Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2012 01:31:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <104171DB-3A57-41E3-8F71-F7F443D930C6@Web.DE> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKhc=u6Q8Rxes85bBGV4si6yc9cHOgxU=xqU-KYFToh+2D0vtA@mail.gmail.com>


Am 7.1.2012 um 23:29 schrieb Daniel Sousa:

> Can anyone help me?
> 
> [...]
> 
> PS: If it help, I'm running on Arch Linux.

Introduced with C-h k you can then type some key combination. GNU Emacs will then describe in echo-area ("mini-buffer") that this key combination is not bound to a function or open a *Help* buffer and display the documentation of the function which is bound to the typed key combination.

In X11 you have the utility xev which will explain which X events you have produced by pressing some keys. Maybe Alt+Shift+< does not produce anything...


When you run GNU Emacs in some terminal you do not send any X event to GNU Emacs, only ASCII codes (see "man ascii"). <ESC>-< and  <ESC>-<Shift>-<, pressed sequentially as <ESC> first and then either < or >, *will* produce the proper input for GNU Emacs, while pressing Alt+< or Alt+Shift+< *might* produce 8-bit control characters, but what the terminal emulation sends to the programme is not determined because a mapping, established via an X resource for example, might not exist.


I'm not using Arch Linux.

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-01-08  0:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-07 22:29 I can't use Alt+Shift Daniel Sousa
2012-01-08  0:31 ` Peter Dyballa [this message]
     [not found]   ` <CAKhc=u53yZQQJWc4zLVpxOZv-UC2ZaSx_-0SM-sRgm_ExSazCg@mail.gmail.com>
2012-01-17 14:43     ` Peter Dyballa
2012-01-17 18:00       ` 郭晓峰
2012-01-19  0:34         ` Aaron Meurer
     [not found] <mailman.1433.1325975890.15002.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-01-08 21:33 ` unfrostedpoptart

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