Re: Single space movement for key press in editor

[Barry Margolin]

In article <mailman.414.1073882600.928.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
 "Jane and Carl Trachte" <janencarl@aznex.net> wrote:

> Hello.
> I've been happily using EMACS for about 8 months now, mostly as a code
> editor for C, LISP, and SQL.  It's worked great on Windows and Linux, so
> much so that I'm hooked.  Recently I loaded Mandrake 9.2 Linux on my
> Linux partition, replacing Red Hat 8 (the computer is an HP Pavillion,
> Pentium 4 processor).  The EMACS installation that came with Mandrake
> has keys that only work once when you hold them down (if I type in C-n,
> holding both keys down, the cursor stops and waits for me to press C-n
> again to move down another line).  Is this something that can be
> controlled by setting a variable in the .Emacs file or is it a quirk of
> the OS?  Thanks in advance for helping out a newb.
> CBT

This is a quirk of the OS or X server.  If you're using X, there's an 
"xset" option that controls key repeat rate.

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA