From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "B. T. Raven" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: map chars in emacs Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2007 10:36:01 -0500 Organization: UseNetServer.com Message-ID: <6740f$461122f8$49f2618$5812@DIALUPUSA.NET> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1175528329 1853 80.91.229.12 (2 Apr 2007 15:38:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 15:38:49 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 02 17:38:38 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 1HYOcA-0005Ns-Gz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Apr 2007 17:38:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HYOfD-0006gC-2A for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Apr 2007 11:41:47 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newshub.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news1.google.com!out01b.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!in04.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!uns-out.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!pc03.usenetserver.com!DIALUPUSA.NET!not-for-mail User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Windows/20070221) Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@usenetserver.com Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Trace: 6740f461122f8a13a83bd05812 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:146759 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:42363 Archived-At: NeoRiddle wrote: > Hi!!! > > I can't put a '\' in emacs, but i dont know why, normally in Kde I put this > char pressing AltGr + \, i works in all my gentoo environment, but in emacs > it does not. > Please help me. > > Thank you This is a riddler. I made this in emacs: \\\\\\ '\'\'\'\'\' The backslash character is in the ascii range so you must have something running that is using this as a dead key. Are you saying (also) that you couldn't produce your above quoted text in Emacs? Of course \ is the escape character in many contexts but that seems to be another issue. What piece of hardware is your keyboard? Ed