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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!think.com!barmar
  2. From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
  3. Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
  4. Subject: Re: binding cntrl-SPC to set-mark-command
  5. Date: 19 Dec 1992 05:02:48 GMT
  6. Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
  7. Lines: 13
  8. Message-ID: <1guadoINNdm7@early-bird.think.com>
  9. References: <DLA.92Dec16224504@se05.wg2.waii.com>
  10. NNTP-Posting-Host: gandalf.think.com
  11.  
  12. In article <DLA.92Dec16224504@se05.wg2.waii.com> dla@se05.wg2.waii.com (Doug Acker) writes:
  13. >I'm  trying  to  bind  cntrl-spc  to  set-mark-command  (its  bound to
  14. >self-insert-command right now), so I put this in my .emacs:
  15.  
  16. There's no such character as Control-Space.  Many terminals send Control-@
  17. (aka NUL) when you type Control-Space.  I suspect your terminal is not one
  18. of them.
  19.  
  20. -- 
  21. Barry Margolin
  22. System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.
  23.  
  24. barmar@think.com          {uunet,harvard}!think!barmar
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