From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Pieter Laeremans Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: keyboard problem Date: 20 Nov 2003 21:31:19 +0100 Organization: KULeuvenNet Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87smki4wa0.fsf@hades.kotnet.org> References: <871xs35593.fsf@hades.kotnet.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1069361440 21710 80.91.224.253 (20 Nov 2003 20:50:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 20:50:40 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 20 21:50:38 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AMvl8-0006Fy-00 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 21:50:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AMwcs-00083O-51 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 16:46:10 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fr.ip.ndsoftware.net!193.190.198.58.MISMATCH!aotearoa.belnet.be!naxos.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 30 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: seven.kulnet.kuleuven.ac.be Original-X-Trace: naxos.belnet.be 1069360280 13231 134.58.127.12 (20 Nov 2003 20:31:20 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@belnet.be Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 20:31:20 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 Cache-Post-Path: seven.kulnet.kuleuven.ac.be!unknown@hades.kotnet.org X-Cache: nntpcache 2.4.0b5 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:118503 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 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 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:14442 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:14442 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