From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: confusion with defining keys Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 07:05:07 +0200 Organization: my virtual residence Message-ID: <8761k8hw8s.fsf@yun.yagibdah.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1402463363 22483 80.91.229.3 (11 Jun 2014 05:09:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 05:09:23 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 11 07:09:15 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Wuamg-0005ED-8H for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Jun 2014 07:09:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43546 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wuamf-00024w-N7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Jun 2014 01:09:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47400) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WuamQ-00023w-EG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Jun 2014 01:09:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WuamK-0003s3-AE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Jun 2014 01:08:58 -0400 Original-Received: from client-194-42-186-216.muenet.net ([194.42.186.216]:47602 helo=jarl.yagibdah.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WuamK-0003q9-3J for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Jun 2014 01:08:52 -0400 Original-Received: from yun.yagibdah.de ([192.168.3.20]) by jarl.yagibdah.de with esmtps (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA256:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WuamI-0001Hg-ER for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Jun 2014 07:08:50 +0200 Original-Received: from lee by yun.yagibdah.de with local (Exim 4.80.1) (envelope-from ) id 1WuamI-0001HP-AX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Jun 2014 07:08:50 +0200 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 194.42.186.216 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:98137 Archived-At: Hi, how come that sometimes keys cannot be defined (for X11 frames)? I'm trying to define something for 'undo, like: (global-set-key "\C-=C3=A4" 'undo) This doesn't define the key binding. Same goes for C-#. Using 'kbd doesn't work, either. What might be the problem with this, and how can I define such keys? --=20 Knowledge is volatile and fluid. Software is power.