From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Forrest <forrest.yu@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: help-gnu-emacs Digest, Vol 62, Issue 20
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 08:53:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47832BF7.40900@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e4d2b03e0801072338k4513efabye19241a7571ed8cf@mail.gmail.com>
Forrest wrote:
>
> > > global-set-key (kbd "C-,")
> > > '(lambda () "scroll the page down" (interactive) (scroll-
> > > down 1)))
> >
> > The console and other terminal emulations can only produce "key
> > events" in the ASCII or extended ASCII range, i.e. 8 bit characters
> > (man ascii). Therefore not every time you hold down the control
> > "modifier" key and press some other key something with a meaning is
> > produced. It's like when you're scribbling on paper: not every
> > "picture" is a letter or a digit or worth an exhibition at MOMA ...
> > C-, can work X which has its own concept of events that are
> > abstracted from ASCII codes.
>
> C-x C-c work well in console, so i guess there must be something wrong
> with my key-binding settings. and also, emacs was designed in ages when
> X was not popular, it's unreasonable that custom key-binding doesn't work
>
> i'm a newbie, could you give me any detailed clue to solve it?
You can use
C-h c (or C-h k)
to find out what keys Emacs sees. Try for example
C-h c C-,
and look at the bottom of the screen for the message you receive.
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2008-01-08 7:38 ` help-gnu-emacs Digest, Vol 62, Issue 20 Forrest
2008-01-08 7:53 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail) [this message]
2008-01-08 8:27 ` Forrest
2008-01-08 8:48 ` Mike Mattie
2008-01-08 9:31 ` Nick Roberts
2008-01-08 8:13 ` Forrest
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2008-01-08 12:28 ` Andreas Eder
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