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Re: binding cntrl-SPC to set-mark-command

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From: Barry Margolin
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 05:02
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In article <DLA.92Dec16224504@se05.wg2.waii.com> dla@se05.wg2.waii.com (Doug Acker) writes:
>I'm  trying  to  bind  cntrl-spc  to  set-mark-command  (its  bound to
>self-insert-command right now), so I put this in my .emacs:

There's no such character as Control-Space.  Many terminals send Control-@
(aka NUL) when you type Control-Space.  I suspect your terminal is not one
of them.

-- 
Barry Margolin
System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.

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Subject: Re: binding cntrl-SPC to set-mark-command
Date: 19 Dec 1992 05:02:48 GMT
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