From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sam Peterson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: in gnome terminal, Emacs "hears" C-M-SPC as M-SPC Date: 16 Oct 2006 06:40:27 -0700 Organization: University of California, Davis Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1161009692 14469 80.91.229.2 (16 Oct 2006 14:41:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 14:41:32 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 16 16:41:29 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GZTeI-00061g-Db for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 16:41:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GZTeI-0002No-0H for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 10:41:02 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news.ucla.edu!ucdavis!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: pc9.cs.ucdavis.edu Original-X-Trace: skeeter.ucdavis.edu 1161006028 9123 169.237.5.34 (16 Oct 2006 13:40:28 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ucdavis.edu Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 13:40:28 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:142452 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:38073 Archived-At: Eric Hanchrow writes: > subject pretty much says it all: I'm using recent Emacs from CVS; > gnome-terminal from recent ubuntu. Almost everything works > perfectly -- but when I hit C-M-SPC, which I do a _lot_, Emacs "hears" > M-SPC. (By which I mean if I then type C-h l, I see ESC SPC; or if I > do C-h C-c C-M-SPC it tells me that "M-SPC runs the command > just-one-space". You get the idea). > > Is there some way I can fiddle gnome-terminal to fix this? > -- > ... democracy is the worst form of government except all those > other forms that have been tried from time to time. > -- Winston Churchill, cited at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy What of Esc C-SPC? Alt is a troublesome key in Window managers. Doesn't solve your problem, I realize, but if that works then it's something to do with either gnome-terminal or the Window Manager capturing it. So it might be gnome-terminal, or it might be the Window Manager. -- Sam Peterson skpeterson At nospam ucdavis.edu "if programmers were paid to remove code instead of adding it, software would be much better" -- unknown