[Novalug] binding a key.

John Holland jholland@vin-dit.org
Sat Aug 15 20:02:36 EDT 2015


Glad it's resolved. These more obscure problems can be hard to fix. Although using emacs should not be an obscure case....



On Aug 15, 2015, 8:00 PM, at 8:00 PM, Gary Knott <garyknott@gmail.com> wrote:
>Dear John,   Thanks  (you are a better googler than I however,  I would
>never have found the link you suggested that led to the ibus issue.)
>
>Anyway,  I went to the "main start menu" and typed ibus in the
>"run box"   I was given three options - one was ibus-setup.
>
>I ran it, and with some struggle, was able to change the "input key"
>whatever that's for, from ctrl-space to ctrl-alt-space.
>
>And now emacs works as it should!    Any information about ibus
>for education and edification would be welcome.
>
>Thanks,  gary,   garyknott@gmail.com
>
>
>
>On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 7:26 PM, John Holland <jholland@vin-dit.org>
>wrote:
>
>> Gary,
>> sorry I don’t know anything about LXDE. I would just be googling for
>it
>> the same as you.
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>>
>> On Aug 15, 2015, at 7:19 PM, Gary Knott <garyknott@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Dear John,  I put
>>
>> (setq-default transient-mark-mode t)
>>
>> (global-set-key (kbd "C-.") 'set-mark-command)
>>
>> in my .emacs file (and both commands are required.)
>>
>> Now when I run emacs and set the mark with ctrl-.
>> and then arrow down a few lines, they are colored, and
>> a proper region is visibly defined for deleting/moving etc.
>>
>>
>> Now the only remaining issue is How do wrest ctrl-space away from
>ibus
>> on a permanant basis?
>>
>>
>> Thanks for your help,  gary -- garyknott@gmail.com
>>
>>
>>
>>



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