Hi! It seems that "C-v" in gdb-mi.el:961 should be "\C-v" because otherwise it's interpreted as "C-x C-a C - v" https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/lisp/progmodes/gdb-mi.el#L961 In GNU Emacs 29.0.50 (build 3, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.34, cairo version 1.17.6) of 2022-09-25 built on home Repository revision: b55b2f1c316ba6a488cc381513a17cf3eec27a0f Repository branch: makepkg Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12101004 System Description: Arch Linux Configured using: 'configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --libexecdir=/usr/lib --localstatedir=/var --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-gameuser=:games --with-modules --without-libotf --without-m17n-flt --without-gconf --with-native-compilation --with-xinput2 --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 --without-xaw3d --with-sound=no --without-gpm --without-compress-install '--program-transform-name=s/\([ec]tags\)/\1.emacs/' 'CFLAGS=-march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fno-plt -fexceptions -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wformat -Werror=format-security -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection' LDFLAGS=-Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--as-needed,-z,relro,-z,now' Configured features: ACL CAIRO DBUS FREETYPE GIF GLIB GMP GNUTLS GSETTINGS HARFBUZZ JPEG JSON LCMS2 LIBSYSTEMD LIBXML2 MODULES NATIVE_COMP NOTIFY INOTIFY PDUMPER PNG RSVG SECCOMP SQLITE3 THREADS TIFF TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS WEBP X11 XDBE XIM XINPUT2 XPM GTK3 ZLIB Important settings: value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix