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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!convex!hermes.oc.com!news.unt.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!emory!nntp.msstate.edu!olivea!grapevine.lcs.mit.edu!grapevine.lcs.mit.edu!alan From: alan@lcs.mit.edu (Alan Bawden) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: [SYSCONS] Can't the PC keyboard send ctl-space? Date: 27 Aug 94 23:04:08 Organization: ITS Preservation Society Lines: 29 Message-ID: <ALAN.94Aug27230408@parsley.lcs.mit.edu> References: <miff.777811349@apanix.apana.org.au> <33l4hl$kv8@pdq.coe.montana.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: parsley.lcs.mit.edu In-reply-to: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu's message of 26 Aug 1994 16:16:53 GMT In article <33l4hl$kv8@pdq.coe.montana.edu> nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes: In article <miff.777811349@apanix.apana.org.au>, Michael Smith <miff@apanix.apana.org.au> wrote: >As every emacs person knows, you use C-SPACE to set the mark (ie send a >null character), however neither syscons, nor any PC terminal program >I've used respond to this - they just send a space. Nope, emacs doesn't do this be default. Change your .emacs file to map C-SPACE to set the mark. (global-set-key "\e " 'set-mark-command) No, that's M-SPACE. He said C-SPACE. Now in fact, there is no such character as C-SPACE -- what he -means- is C-@. Many terminals generate C-@ when you hold down CTRL and strike the space bar, and so there are a number of us Emacs users who have the habit of typing C-@ that way. Indeed, syscons doesn't have this behavior by default, but since syscons lets you reprogram the keyboard pretty much arbitrarily, you can easily -make- it do what you want. See the `kbdcontrol' man page in FreeBSD 1.1.5.1. -- Alan Bawden Alan@Epilogue.Com Epilogue Technology Corp. (617) 245-0804 333 North Avenue Wakefield, MA 06BF9EB8FC4CFC24DC75BDAE3BB25C4B