From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sivaram Neelakantan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: unable to map C-_ to undo in wsl ubuntu emacs Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2021 18:39:37 +0530 Message-ID: <85eea1df5a.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="22520"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (windows-nt) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:Ii6zv3oh6pljchnqWkFBNJes1Qc= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 06 15:10:14 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mNEO5-0005fu-L6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 06 Sep 2021 15:10:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40738 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mNEO4-0008F6-5P for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 06 Sep 2021 09:10:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:56774) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mNENh-0008Ew-P8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Sep 2021 09:09:49 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:42198) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mNENc-00067s-9H for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Sep 2021 09:09:49 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mNENZ-0004yh-HB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Sep 2021 15:09:41 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ User-Mail-Address: nsivaram.net@gmail.com Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: 5 X-Spam_score: 0.5 X-Spam_bar: / X-Spam_report: (0.5 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD=1, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN=0.25, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.9, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:132919 Archived-At: I've got Emacs-27.2 running in Emacs -nw and when I do C-_, I get RET which I confirmed by C-h k "RET runs the command newline (found in global-map)... compiled lisp function in 'simple.el'" Now I try to reset to undo by doing M-x global-set-key and generating the mapping by C-x ESC ESC which gives me ;; mapping C-_ to undo as it seems to be not recognized in some settings (global-set-key "" 'undo) This doesn't work and I can't figure out why C-_ is mapped to undo in simple.el in one OS (win64) and RET in WSL ubuntu terminal Emacs simple.el. How should I go about fixing this please? sivaram --