Re: emacs key bindings: normal .emacs entries don't work

[John Bullock]

Thanks for this advice.

right C-h l produces "ESC O C C-h l"
C-right C-h l produces "C-x 1 ESC O C C-h l"

C-right C-l doesn't seem to cause a *Help* buffer to appear -- the screen 
flickers for a moment, but that's all.

I should have noted: when I say that the various global-set-key lines I've 
tried haven't worked, I mean that when I use them, C-right is just like using 
the right arrow on its own.  There is no functional difference at all.

--John


"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org> wrote in message 
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>> From: "John Bullock" <john.bullock@stanford.edu>
>> Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 18:09:46 -0700
>>
>>         I use GNU Emacs 22.1 -- via a tty terminal, not through X.
>> I am trying to change the default key bindings so that (for example)
>> Control-right moves the cursor forward by one word.  Newsgroups are full of
>> solutions to this problem, but to date, none of them have helped me.
>>
>>         I've tried each of these lines in .emacs:
>>
>>                 (global-set-key (quote [C-right]) (quote forward-word))
>>                 (global-set-key [C-right] 'forward-word)
>>                 (global-set-key [(control right)] 'forward-word)
>>
>> None have worked.
>
> Does Emacs at all see the C-right key?  What happens if you press
> C-right and then type C-l (that's a letter ell, not a digit one)?  Do
> you see <C-right> or some such in the *Help* buffer that Emacs pops?