From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Teemu Likonen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: C-M-. (find-tag-regexp) is not working Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:52:15 GMT Organization: Sonera Customer Message-ID: <873ad9bm5c.fsf@iki.fi> References: <1c5a0fce-3c0e-4fbe-84c9-3076485b0299@j39g2000yqn.googlegroups.com> <2daf4896-ec2c-4a33-9c4f-19882105a7b6@y13g2000yqn.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1237480043 17913 80.91.229.12 (19 Mar 2009 16:27:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:27:23 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 19 17:28:40 2009 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 1LkL6T-0001aX-9x for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:28:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51179 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LkL56-0001Hz-Qt for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:26:56 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!feeder2.news.saunalahti.fi!feeder1.news.saunalahti.fi!nntp.inet.fi!central1.inet.fi!inet.fi!read4.inet.fi.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:+PHXD55VhqU5KxfAhylScvUdOmU= Original-Lines: 9 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.220.180.181 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@inet.fi Original-X-Trace: read4.inet.fi 1237474335 80.220.180.181 (Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:52:15 EET) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:52:15 EET Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:167803 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:63098 Archived-At: On 2009-03-19 05:45 (-0700), Francis Moreau wrote: > yes I use emacs -nw in a gnome terminal C-M-. doesn't work in text terminals. Ctrl+ combinations require that actual control character exists for the key. There is no such character as Ctrl+. so text terminal programs won't receive the key. I think that only Ctrl+ and Ctrl+ work in terminals. Meta key is more flexible, though.