From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?Q?Timoth=C3=A9e_Flutre?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Emacs doesn't set mark with C- anymore after Xubuntu upgrade to 14.04 Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 23:41:07 +0200 Message-ID: Reply-To: timflutre@gmail.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1400709634 24575 80.91.229.3 (21 May 2014 22:00:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 22:00:34 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 22 00:00:30 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 1WnEYn-0004G1-Ta for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 May 2014 00:00:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33776 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WnEYk-0003dc-U8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 May 2014 18:00:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37885) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WnEGR-0006sF-Ta for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 21 May 2014 17:41:33 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WnEGQ-0004l2-KF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 21 May 2014 17:41:31 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-wg0-x232.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c00::232]:58931) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WnEGQ-0004j7-DY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 21 May 2014 17:41:30 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-wg0-f50.google.com with SMTP id x12so2556138wgg.33 for ; Wed, 21 May 2014 14:41:28 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:reply-to:from:date:message-id:subject:to:content-type; bh=B2xuIiYztesNZR0fOP3g/Cm+IA+P3KFpLQz6G/da2WU=; b=AZmj515LaGpFMpxBqvtclQXhYrFMHLKZ9z1tumZwpiwKH72k0yCYon9CYdu1wH/t3x V1XgJNFhloUqxRNS+MRYz/UNd54MsZ5zBnaBbbQyfIclQdFqcPFIxyIbnDy8QXbcoPWi HdfnhU+yKdowyj4ZbtAnxdiG/t2e5htbCRx2jxPCpe2jaI7QIioxvGlKWs014HVBsvDe +p5MZvth76WEbNdjuv+KrmVe1e6tj8w5MdCPE34G87X5tsiz8bgoEB+7kvUE4PVuw726 6XOtG35qw05k29ET05rkff0VgkTDqPrbn1VQgOHaIrGcNiK0EsqQa3nhLr+G/YJzaQA8 nu3w== X-Received: by 10.180.14.137 with SMTP id p9mr12846122wic.15.1400708488023; Wed, 21 May 2014 14:41:28 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.194.167.4 with HTTP; Wed, 21 May 2014 14:41:07 -0700 (PDT) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:400c:c00::232 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 21 May 2014 18:00:14 -0400 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 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:97782 Archived-At: I just upgraded Xubuntu on my laptop from 13.10 to 14.04. I uninstalled and re-installed Emacs and its version is 24.3.1. Everything is working fine except the kill-yank system (copy-paste). To investigate this, I opened a terminal (xfce4-terminal 0.6.3), launched emacs inside it (emacs -nw), wrote a few dummy lines in *scratch* and kill-yank one of them (C-space C-n Esc-w). But when I entered the last command ("Esc-w"), the mini-buffer displayed the following message: The mark is not set now, so there is no region I had no idea what was going on because this was working fine all the time I was using emacs for several years. So I looked up online and found in the manual ( https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Setting-Mark.html) that C- was used to set the mark. Same for C-@. And indeed, the latter works fine even though the former doesn't. On StackOverflow, I learned that C- was not working likely due to the fact that the terminal emulator wasn't properly transmitting C- to emacs (http://stackoverflow.com/a/16271042/597069). My questions therefore are: should I get use to C-@? Why was C- working before and not anymore? Is there something to add to my .emacs profile to make C- work all the time with emacs v24+? Thanks for your help! Tim