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- From: kgallagh@digi.lonestar.org (Kevin Gallagher)
- Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
- Subject: Re: control-@ in demacs
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.012904.7109@digi.lonestar.org>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 01:29:04 GMT
- References: <ARA.92Aug19234622@camelot.ai.mit.edu> <1992Aug21.093335.1271@aiware.in-berlin.de> <ARA.92Aug21105337@camelot.ai.mit.edu>
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- In article <ARA.92Aug21105337@camelot.ai.mit.edu> ara@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Allan Adler) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug21.093335.1271@aiware.in-berlin.de> scm@aiware.in-berlin.de (Harald Schmidt) writes:
- >
- > ara@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Allan Adler) writes:
- >
- > >Respondents were unanimous in suggesting that if not control-@ then certainly
- > >control-SPC would work. It doesn't.
- >
- > I have got the same problem, but if I type \C-SPC twice, it works.
- >
- > Hope this helps,
- >
- >
- >
- >I tried control-SPC, control-SPC SPC, control-SPC control-SPC
- >and other things. Nothing works.
-
- I'll assume that you are using a standard 100% compatible IBM PC 386/486 clone
- with a standard keyboard, a standard MS-DOS, and the ansi.sys device driver
- that comes with that version of MS-DOS.
-
- Look at your _emacs file and be sure that the following line exists and is NOT
- commented out (i.e., NOT preceded by one or more semi-colons):
-
- (setq dos-machine-type 'ibmpc)
-
- The standard ansi.sys device driver does not distinguish between C-SPC and
- SPC. The above line tells Demacs to enable code which recognizes C-SPC and
- SPC as different. (I am not sure if it does anything else, but I do know that
- it is necessary for C-SPC to be interpreted as C-@ by Demacs.)
-
- Hope this helps.
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