Re: keyboard problem

[Pieter Laeremans <pieter@kotnet.org>]

daniel@syr-24-59-76-83.twcny.rr.com (Daniel R. Anderson) writes:

> > Someone I know has got a problem to use 
> > 
> > C-SPC to activate marking.
> > 
> > It does not seem to appear in the keymap.
> 
>         Do you mean to say that when you pres C-h c C-SPC it says that
> C-SPC isn't bound to the function to set the mark, or that it does not
> visually appear  to be highlighting the  mark?  Can you  C-SPC and C-x
> C-x to the other side of  the mark?  Try M-x transient-mark-mode .  If
> that fixes you can call it in your .emacs with something like:
> 
> (transient-mark-mode t) ;; i think
> 

I can 't tell.  It 's on a computer of a friend of mine. I didn't see
it myself.  But she told me that c-@ did work. I know about
transient-mark-mode but that isn't the problem.

Maybe it has to do something with the window manager.

But still to test I would like to bind c-spc to something else.

and I would like to know how to it so that it works under X.

thanks in advance,

Pieter