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From: Dmitry Dzhus <dima <at> sphinx.net.ru>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#6035: M-x gdb crashes
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 22:54:48 +0400

Arni Magnusson wrote:
> When there is no .emacs file, M-x gdb works fine.
>
> When the .emacs file defines a keybinding for C-x C-a, for example,
>
>   (global-set-key [?\C-x ?\C-a] 'align)
>
> then M-x gdb crashes with the following error message:
>
>   Key sequence C-x C-a C-l starts with non-prefix key C-x C-a
>

C-x C-a is GUD prefix. gdb-mi.el is based on GUD, so it uses its
keybindings too.

> The Emacs documentation indicates that users are allowed to bind C-x
> C- 
> keystrokes to functions that they use in their work.

Which section of Emacs manual says that?

`C-c LETTER` keyspace is reserved for users' needs, as stated in section
«D.2 Key binding conventions» of Emacs Lisp manual.

You can type C-x C-h and see that pretty much of C-x C- keychords are
already occupied by default global bindings.
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