Re: keyboard problem

[Kevin Rodgers]

Pieter Laeremans wrote:

> I can 't tell.  It 's on a computer of a friend of mine. I didn't see
> it myself.  But she told me that c-@ did work. I know about
> transient-mark-mode but that isn't the problem.
>
> Maybe it has to do something with the window manager.
>
> But still to test I would like to bind c-spc to something else.
>
> and I would like to know how to it so that it works under X.

This is odd because generally people have the opposite problem: typing
`C-SPC' works fine under a window system, but in a terminal (or terminal
emulator within a window system) they have to resort to `C-@'.

Does the problem occur when your friend starts Emacs with no local
customizations (emacs -q --no-site-file)?  What happens when she types
`C-h k C-SPC', then `C-h l' in both environments (i.e. with and without
the -nw command line option)?


--
Kevin Rodgers