About mark set

About mark set

[Jack Wang]

Hi:



I find that ctrl-space (mark set) does not work on my computer. The key board is good. What is the problem?



Thanks a lot



Jack







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Re: About mark set

[gebser]

At 12:03 (UTC-0500) on Tue, 3 Feb 2004 Jack Wang said:

=I find that ctrl-space (mark set) does not work on my computer. The key
=board is good. What is the problem?

What do you get when you do "C-h k C-SPACE"?

Re: About mark set

[Arnaud Delobelle]

Jack Wang wrote:

> Hi:

Hello Jack

> I find that ctrl-space (mark set) does not work on my computer. The key board is good. What is the problem?

What computer?
What keyboard?
What emacs?
What operating system?

(Does C-@ work?)

-- 
Arnaud Delobelle

Re: About mark set

[Jack Wang]

Thanks a lot.

I run windows and use putty or Xwindows to connect to a linux machine. My PC is dell. I tried linux(debian/redhat) and sun OS. None of them works.  

ctrl-@ works. ctrl-h k ctrl-space shows nothing.



It is strange.



Jack





From:  Arnaud Delobelle 

Subject:  Re: About mark set 

Date:  Tue, 03 Feb 2004 17:33:47 +0000 

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Jack Wang wrote:





>Hi:



Hello Jack





>I find that ctrl-space (mark set) does not work on my computer. The >key board is good. What is the problem?



What computer?

What keyboard?

What emacs?

What operating system?



(Does C-@ work?)



--

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Re: About mark set

[Barry Margolin]

In article <mailman.1899.1075921640.928.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
 "Jack Wang" <jw2000@excite.com> wrote:

> Thanks a lot.
> 
> I run windows and use putty or Xwindows to connect to a linux machine. My PC 
> is dell. I tried linux(debian/redhat) and sun OS. None of them works.  
> 
> ctrl-@ works. ctrl-h k ctrl-space shows nothing.
> 
> It is strange.

It's a terminal emulator problem -- it's not sending anything when you 
type Ctrl-space.  If Emacs doesn't see a keystroke, it can hardly be 
expected to process it.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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Re: About mark set

[Kevin Rodgers]

Jack Wang wrote:

> I run windows and use putty or Xwindows to connect to a linux machine. My PC is dell. I tried linux(debian/redhat) and sun OS. None of them works.  
> 
> ctrl-@ works. ctrl-h k ctrl-space shows nothing.

That means your terminal emulator sends the expected code for C-@ but sends 
nothing for C-SPC.
-- 
Kevin Rodgers

Re: About mark set

[Eli Zaretskii]

> X-AntiAbuse: ID = 89659a7ff4ddd332408b0a759a1a101b
> From: "Jack Wang" <jw2000@excite.com>
> Date: Wed,  4 Feb 2004 14:05:36 -0500 (EST)
> 
> I run windows and use putty or Xwindows to connect to a linux machine. My PC is dell. I tried linux(debian/redhat) and sun OS. None of them works.  
> 
> ctrl-@ works. ctrl-h k ctrl-space shows nothing.

I don't know what is Xwindows, but I work with PuTTY every day,
logging into both Solaris and Debian GNU/Linux machines, and
Ctrl-SPACE does work for me in both cases.

Did you change the keyboard settings in any way?  I think the default
configuration should just work.

Re: About mark set

[Jack Wang]

Thanks a lot.

How to solve the problem?



Jack





From:  Kevin Rodgers 

Subject:  Re: About mark set 

Date:  Wed, 04 Feb 2004 17:14:13 -0700 

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Jack Wang wrote:





>I run windows and use putty or Xwindows to connect to a linux >machine. My PC is dell. I tried linux(debian/redhat) and sun OS. >None of them works. 

>ctrl-@ works. ctrl-h k ctrl-space shows nothing.



That means your terminal emulator sends the expected code for C-@ but sends nothing for C-SPC.

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Re: About mark set

[Kai Grossjohann]

"Jack Wang" <jw2000@excite.com> writes:

> How to solve the problem?

Well, you need to tell your terminal emulator to pass C-SPC to the
application.  Obviously, how to do this depends on which program you
are using...

Kai