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- From: apoulsen@athena.mit.edu (Andy Poulsen)
- Subject: Re: GNU Emacs question
- In-Reply-To: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu's message of 14 Dec 92 22:23:05 GMT
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- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 02:53:02 GMT
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- >>>>> On 14 Dec 92 22:23:05 GMT, dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) said:
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- > In article <78279@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt0554c@prism.gatech.EDU (MCCONNELL) writes:
- >>
- >>I installed GNU Emacs on my OS/2 machine and have a problem. C-@ or
- >>C-SPC does not set the mark. I had this same problem under DOS with a
- >>different version of GNU Emacs (djp). I have a Dell computer. Is there
- >>something I need to do so emacs recognizes my keyboard properly?
-
- > Nope. C-@ is being used internally by the program for some reason.
- > As for C-SPC, I don't know. To set the mark with this port of emacs,
- > either use M-SPC or F12.
-
- well, not quite true. i've got the following pair of lines in my .emacs
- file that make everything work just fine... give it a shot and see!
- (i dunno about ctrl-space, though.... )
-
-
- ; enable ctrl-2 to be set-mark-command
- (define-key ext-map "\003" 'set-mark-command)
-
- enjoy!!!
-
- andy
-
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