Re: with-pgtk: C-; turns into plain ';'

[Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com>]

tomas@tuxteam.de writes:

> [[PGP Signed Part:Undecided]]
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 11:56:40AM +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>> Hello, Tomas.
>> 
>> On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 07:36:21 +0100, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> > Note that TTYs have no way to represent C-; and friends.
>> 
>> But they do.  It just takes a bit of work.  loadkeys is your friend.
>> I've had C-; on my Linux console for over 20 years, now.  As well as
>> loadkeys, you need to set up Emacs with stuff in the function-key-map to
>> handle the modified keys.  It works well.
>
> OK, OK. I should have added "often" :-)
>
> Usually it's me the one who says "all generalizations suck". Thanks for
> setting me straight.
>
> Still, and returning to the OP, the described behaviour is at least a
> kind of hint: I'd check whether C-c and C-x works or not, to bisect the
> issue at that point.
>

I suspect if C-c and C-x did not work, that would already have been
reported as those are key bindings pretty essential to a functionaling
Emacs. A failing binding for something like C-; is something many users
may not notice for some time (if ever).