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

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From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs <at> gmail.com>
To: Jean Louis <bugs <at> gnu.support>, 60616 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#60616: 30.0.50; C-M-% never worked on German keyboard
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2023 17:22:01 -0800

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.

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