Re: help-gnu-emacs Digest, Vol 62, Issue 20

[Forrest <forrest.yu@gmail.com>]

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On Jan 8, 2008 3:53 PM, Lennart Borgman (gmail) <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
>
>
> Forrest wrote:
> >
> > > > global-set-key (kbd "C-,")
> > > > '(lambda () "scroll the page down" (interactive) (scroll-
> > > > down 1)))
> > >
> > > The console and other terminal emulations can only produce "key
> > > events" in the ASCII or extended ASCII range, i.e. 8 bit characters
> > > (man ascii). Therefore not every time you hold down the control
> > > "modifier" key and press some other key something with a meaning is
> > > produced. It's like when you're scribbling on paper: not every
> > > "picture" is a letter or a digit or worth an exhibition at MOMA ...
> > > C-, can work X which has its own concept of events that are
> > > abstracted from ASCII codes.
> >
> > C-x C-c work well in console, so i guess there must be something wrong
> > with my key-binding settings. and also, emacs was designed in ages when
> > X was not popular, it's unreasonable that custom key-binding doesn't
work
> >
> > i'm a newbie, could you give me any detailed clue to solve it?
>
>
> You can use
>
> C-h c (or C-h k)
>
> to find out what keys Emacs sees. Try for example
>
> C-h c C-,
>
> and look at the bottom of the screen for the message you receive.
>

i tried C-h c C-, in console, nothing happened, seems like emacs didn't
receive the key pressing event

-- 
Stupid is as stupid does.

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