Re: `global-set-key' doesn't work in my console

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 07.01.2008 um 09:03 schrieb Forrest:

> global-set-key (kbd "C-,")
>         '(lambda () "scroll the page down" (interactive) (scroll- 
> down 1)))

The console and other terminal emulations can only produce "key  
events" in the ASCII or extended ASCII range, i.e. 8 bit characters  
(man ascii). Therefore not every time you hold down the control  
"modifier" key and press some other key something with a meaning is  
produced. It's like when you're scribbling on paper: not every  
"picture" is a letter or a digit or worth an exhibition at MOMA ...  
C-, can work X which has its own concept of events that are  
abstracted from ASCII codes.

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  Pete

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