Re: global-set-key, error: Invalid modifier in string

[Johan Bockgård]

John <jmg3000@gmail.com> writes:

> On Aug 17, 11:20 am, John <jmg3...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I'm not familiar with the differences between ascii and non-ascii ctrl
>> characters, but using kbd fixed the problem. :)
>
> ... but I'm beginning to *get* familiar, since they don't seem to work
> when using Emacs in my terminal window over ssh.

Yes, normally terminals don't know about non-ASCII control characters.

You can make xterm recognize these keys by using

   XTerm*modifyOtherKeys:  1

in ~/.Xdefaults.

(If you have a recent CVS version of Emacs, it will try to turn this
feature on automatically.)

-- 
Johan Bockgård