On Aug 17, 11:20 am, John wrote: > On Aug 17, 6:13 am, bojohan+n...@dd.chalmers.se (Johan Bockgård) > wrote: > > > John writes: > > > Seems like some of the Alt keys are working, but the ones with "\C-" > > > in them are causing the error. > > > Strings can't contain non-ASCII control characters. Use (kbd "C-.") or > > [?\C-.] etc instead. > > 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.