> I then see "C-@" echoed in the minibuffer, and the resulting *Help* buffer 
> says

WFIW, in the DEC VT terminals (from where most of ANSI controls stem from), 
Ctrl-Space used to
generate a NUL character (ASCII '\0'), and so maybe it is seen as a fill 
character by the OP's
terminal and, therefore, is ignored.

Anton Lavrentiev
Contractor NIH/NLM/NCBI


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