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- From: harriga@duc.auburn.edu (Darrel Hankerson)
- Subject: Re: GNU Emacs question
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.025901.26017@news.duc.auburn.edu>
- Sender: harriga@mail.auburn.edu (Darrel Hankerson)
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- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 02:59:01 GMT
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- In article <APOULSEN.92Dec14215254@vongole.mit.edu> apoulsen@athena.mit.edu (Andy Poulsen) writes:
- >>>>>> 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
- >
- >--
- >andy poulsen * apoulsen@athena.mit.edu, andy@huey.jpl.nasa.gov
- >MIT mechanical engineering * ***********************************************
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