From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nikolaj Schumacher Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Special character Emacs Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2008 22:18:54 +0200 Message-ID: References: <2236b1ea-52a3-4377-a451-ae971fed9bb4@x41g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1212956366 26947 80.91.229.12 (8 Jun 2008 20:19:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2008 20:19:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Andreas Wittmann Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 08 22:20:09 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K5RN2-00034B-KK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 22:20:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58670 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K5RMF-00075w-CS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 16:19:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K5RLv-000731-61 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 16:18:59 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K5RLt-0006zC-1G for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 16:18:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=56749 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K5RLs-0006z3-Uj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 16:18:56 -0400 Original-Received: from fmmailgate02.web.de ([217.72.192.227]:59792) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K5RLt-00087t-0C for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 16:18:57 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp05.web.de (fmsmtp05.dlan.cinetic.de [172.20.4.166]) by fmmailgate02.web.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4663E0E58D9; Sun, 8 Jun 2008 22:18:55 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [77.189.3.97] (helo=thursday-2.local) by smtp05.web.de with asmtp (WEB.DE 4.109 #226) id 1K5RLr-0001RY-00; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 22:18:55 +0200 In-Reply-To: <2236b1ea-52a3-4377-a451-ae971fed9bb4@x41g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> (Andreas Wittmann's message of "Sun\, 8 Jun 2008 05\:12\:24 -0700 \(PDT\)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (darwin) X-Sender: n_schumacher@web.de X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19hL/MAOvzicZ+PDof2b776gzDdhUU0jq39RJRM Z/gDIlXiFXzAuqPlKoSoF/ZGP/26zVqL0HeTiEYBJ7SjUrlLA0 z/ebqlw9ivMw7P6iwMoQ== X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:54626 Archived-At: Andreas Wittmann wrote: > it says "" how can i define it? As I guessed earlier, your ^ is a dead key. (Next time, please post any error messages right away.) Most likely you didn't want it to be a dead key in the first place. You can fix that by selecting the eliminate-dead-keys keyboard layout variant in Ubuntu. However, in my clean install of Ubuntu, Emacs 22 handles dead keys just fine. (That is, it ignores dead-circumflex.) Please verify that the error occurs with emacs -Q, and please answer my earlier question on whether you run emacs from the terminal. regards, Nikolaj Schumacher