Emacs LISP & macros

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

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On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 21:19:37 +0900
Derek Martin <invalid at pizzashack.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 08:09:05AM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> > I think that Bill had his sequence wrong. 
> 
> This may well be true; however regardless of what the actual key
> binding is, I have also had this problem with Xemacs on Red Hat
> systems.  I don't remember what key sequence it was bound to by
> default, and I don't have time right now to investigate, so I'll
> assume you are correct.  I also haven't used (x)emacs in months,
> having found that vim does everything that I wanted Xemacs to do for
> me with a lot less fuss and much quicker load times.  But I do
> remember that Xemacs will tell you what key sequence a function is
> bound to, and that no combination of the named keys would activate
> that function...  I was only ever able to activate the function using
> the M-x trick.
On further investigation:
M-C-% is bound to Query-replace-regexp,
BUT... on 2 Red Hat systems I have tried, you cannot type M-C-% (ESC,
control-shift-%). This does not seem to be a hardware system since I was
using the same keyboard. It may be a function of the terminal driver on
Red Hat. (My system is SuSE 8.2). 
I was able to log onto a Red Hat system and bind 'query-replace-regex'
to the M-% but not M-C-%. I did this both interactively and in the
.emacs file. This may be a restriction of ssh. I started an ssh to my
laptop, and tested M-C-%, and only got M-%, but when I ran emacs from my
laptop directly M-C-% worked as advertised. 

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