X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=2.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM,KAM_THEBAT X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 01:02:31 +0400 From: Andrey Repin Reply-To: Andrey Repin Message-ID: <124468332.20100626010231@mtu-net.ru> To: Steven Collins , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: CTRL-Space issue in Emacs under X on Windows XP machine. In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Greetings, Steven Collins! > I'm a long time user of Emacs and expect the CTRL-Space key > combination to run the set-mark-command. On most machines I use this > is the case, but on one Windows XP machine running Emacs under X that > I use at work the key combination doesn't work. On this machine Emacs > behaves as is I've not pressed any keys at all. I've checked the key > bindings for the set-mark-command and CTRL-Space is listed (see > attachments). The CTRL-@ combination does work on this machine, but it > is not the one I'm used to using for this purpose. Does anyone have > any ideas what else to check? System hooks for the same shortcut. Easiest is to create a new user, login under it and try there. If nothing changed, look through launched applications and investigate their purpose and behavior. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 26.06.2010, <1:01> Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple