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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!news.adelaide.edu.au!gateway.dircsa.org.au!cleese.apana.org.au!apanix.apana.org.au!miff From: miff@apanix.apana.org.au (Michael Smith) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: [SYSCONS] Can't the PC keyboard send ctl-space? Date: 25 Aug 94 10:42:29 GMT Organization: Apanix Public Access Unix, +61 8 373 5485 (5 lines) Lines: 12 Message-ID: <miff.777811349@apanix.apana.org.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: seldon.apanix.apana.org.au 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. Is it not possible to detect this? C-SHIFT-2 is not an easy stretch 8( -- # mike smith : miff@apanix.apana.org.au - Silicon grease monkey # # "The question 'why are the fundamental laws of nature mathematical' # # then invites the trivial response 'because we define as fundamental # # those laws which are mathematical'". Paul Davies, _The_Mind_of_God_. #