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30.0.50; C-M-% never worked on German keyboard

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From: Jean Louis <bugs <at> gnu.support>
To: Jim Porter <jporterbugs <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 60616 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#60616: 30.0.50; C-M-% never worked on German keyboard
Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2023 03:35:38 +0300

* Jim Porter <jporterbugs <at> gmail.com> [2023-01-07 04:22]:
> On 1/6/2023 4:07 PM, Jean Louis wrote:
> > Regular expression search invokation by using key binding C-M-% never worked on this German keyboard. I don't remember it ever worked.
> > 
> > C-h k on C-M-% read no key, there is no report, nothing, it cannot detect it.
> > 
> > I can use M-% without problem.
> 
> Does "ESC C-%" (or I guess you could spell it "ESC C-S-5") work?
> 
> As I recall, on some keyboard layouts, trying to do C-M-<foo> doesn't work
> as a keybinding, since C-M- is reserved for inputting special
> characters.

I see that "ESC C-%" works.

-- 
Jean

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