Thanks for your help, everyone.
The problem resolved itself when I installed the latest Windows updates. So
it must have been an M$ problem, and I'll never know exactly what it was ...
Fred
On 28 March 2012 17:49, Michael Hotchin <mich...@hotchin.net> wrote:
> Is ESC working in other contexts? For example, does CTRL-SHIFT-ESC bring
> up the task manager?****
>
> ** **
>
> *From:* help-emacs-windows-bounces+michael=hotchin....@gnu.org [mailto:
> help-emacs-windows-bounces+michael=hotchin....@gnu.org] *On Behalf Of
> *Frederick
> Bartlett
> *Sent:* Wednesday, March 28, 2012 11:59 AM
> *To:* help-emacs-windows@gnu.org
> *Subject:* [h-e-w] Emacs no longer processes ESC keypress****
>
> ** **
>
> Hi!
>
> I'm running Emacs 23.4 on 64-bit Windows 7 with Cygwin.
>
> A couple of weeks ago, The C-X ESC ESC binding stopped working; simple
> investigation revealed that Emacs is not recognizing ESC key presses.
> Swapping keyboards did no good, and my Emacs setup on a 32-bit Windows
> 7/Cygwin laptop continues to behave.
>
> Has anyone else seen this? I have no idea what I might have done to cause
> this. I did recently install Adobe's Creative Suite (main reason I'm still
> on Windows...), which is annoying enough that I don't want to redo it.
>
> All clues gratefully received!
>
> Thanks,
> Fred
>
>
>
> --
> The things that make us happy make us wise.
> -- John Crowley, Little, Big****
>
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The things that make us happy make us wise.
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