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Re: in gnome terminal, Emacs "hears" C-M-SPC as M-SPC
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Sam Peterson |
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Re: in gnome terminal, Emacs "hears" C-M-SPC as M-SPC |
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16 Oct 2006 06:40:27 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 |
Eric Hanchrow <offby1@blarg.net> 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