Re: help-gnu-emacs Digest, Vol 62, Issue 20

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Forrest wrote:
>  > > 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.
>
> C-x C-c work well in console, so i guess there must be something wrong 
> with my key-binding settings. and also, emacs was designed in ages when 
> X was not popular, it's unreasonable that custom key-binding doesn't work
>
> i'm a newbie, could you give me any detailed clue to solve it?


You can use

  C-h c (or C-h k)

to find out what keys Emacs sees. Try for example

  C-h c C-,

and look at the bottom of the screen for the message you receive.