> From: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > rg] On Behalf Of David Vanderschel > Sent: Tuesday 23 January 2007 1:58 am > To: help-emacs-windows@gnu.org > Subject: Re: [h-e-w] no C-spc > > On Monday, January 22, "Ryan Krauss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I am having trouble with my emacs install. I cannot use > C-spc to set > >the mark. ... > > I have seen similar symptoms which were specific to the > hardware. In such cases, I assume the problem is in the > keyboard itself or the BIOS. Since C-space does not mean > anything to Windows, it would not be surprising if machines > that don't see it made it into the wild. (I have a few other > relatively obscure key-combinations which don't come through.)
I would suspect the BIOS. I had a Dell desktop machine a few years ago that did not respond to Ctrl-Meta-L. I found a BIOS update on the Dell web site, installed it and that fixed the problem. I now have the same problem on my Acer notebook, which I hope I will be able to fix in the same way although I haven't tried yet. These problems tend to show up only in Emacs because most applications don't use so many obscure key combinations. Francis
