Problems with the set-mark-command

["T. V. Raman" <raman@Adobe.COM>]

The information you give certainly doesn't shed much light
on anything.

First of all, after you set the mark check if the mark is
indeed set --move the cursor and execute C-x C-x which
exchanges point and mark.

My guess is that you are either not setting the mark, or
unsetting it in some way before you delete the region with
C-w -- but the fact that you say you hear a beep from the
express indicates that something did get deleted.

Anyway, if you are not able to set the mark, that is not an
emacspeak problem--
it's either something in your environment or more likely
something with your keyboard-
for instance if you are logging in via a telnet session
control-space doesn't usually work.
Christopher J Chaltain writes:
 > I've been having trouble with the set-mark-command.  When I type Ctrl-space,
 > I'll here the current line spoken.  If I move down the file with the Ctrl-n
 > and then type Ctrl-w, all I hear is a beep from my workstation speaker.  The
 > *Messages* buffer only contains the message:
 > 
 > Error: The mark is not set now
 > 
 > I get the same behavior when I use the command ad-Orig-set-mark-command,
 > except the current line isn't spoken.  When I log in remotely, using Screen
 > Reader/2 on a PC, Emacs works as expected.
 > 
 > I'm runnint Emacs 20.2 on a RS/6000 running AIX 4.3.1.  I'm using TCL version
 > 8.0P2.
 > 
 > This doesn't seem like much information to go on.  Is there anything I can do
 > to get more information?
 > 
 > I've been using Emacspeak since December 1997, and I'm very happy and
 > excited!  I've been an Emacs user since I first started working on AIX in
 > 1993, and the Emacspeak interface makes working in Emacs and Unix so much
 > more efficient.
 > 
 > -- 
 > Christopher
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Best Regards,
--raman

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