"Mark Hickman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Olive wrote: > > Mark Hickman wrote: > > > >> Elim Qiu wrote: > >> > >>> Hi List, > >>> > >>> Forgive me if my question is wrong to the list. I'm new to cygwin and > >>> emacs. > >>> > >>> I installed cygwin with emacs on my thinkpad T22 + win2k as: > >>> GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (i686-pc-cygwin, X toolkit) of 2004-03-22 on cm-test > >>> > >>> *** The 1st trouble was that it does not quit (c-x c-c not working). > >>> After some search, I modified cygwin.bat as: > >>> > >>> ============================= > >>> @echo off > >>> > >>> E: > >>> chdir E:\cygwin\bin > >>> set CYGWIN=tty notitle glob > >>> bash --login -i > >>> ============================== > >>> The problem was gone (although i'm not so sure that's the proper > >>> thing to do) > >>> > >>> *** The 2nd trouble was the delete key. According to the emacs > >>> tutorial, this should be the backspace key in my case. But it > >>> doesn't work. The problem remains the same on my Dell desktop > >>> (same os, same cygwin+emacs). I figured that instead of backspace, > >>> C-backspace works as <Delete> in emacs tutorial. And so just need > >>> to keep in mind that <Delete> equals C-backspace for me (both > >>> thinkpad and dell worked that way) > >>> > >>> *** Now the 3rd trouble: cannot figure out what the key mapping > >>> for M-<Delete> although M-d works just fine (M=alt in my case). > >>> > >>> Now i'm stuck at %30 part of the emacs tutorial and looking for > >>> hints on M-<Delete> key mapping.... > >>> > >>> I'm starting doubt about what i did: maybe there are some total > >>> solution for setting emacs on cygwin which makes emacs work just > >>> like the emacs tutorial described? Cygwin is there for years and > >>> many people should gone through this already. > >>> > >>> So i'm looking for help here. And if you know all these about, please > >>> try letting cygwin newbies know too. > >>> > >>> Thanks! > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> -------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > >>> > >>> No virus found in this outgoing message. > >>> Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > >>> Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 266.5.6 - Release Date: 3/1/2005 > >> > >> > >> Compaq Armada E500 emacs 21.2.1 i686-pc-cygwin > >> > >> I have had similar problems. By using describe-key-briefly I found that > >> in emacs the C-c combination is being interpreted as C-g. Since C-xC-g > >> is undefined, I can create a .emacs file with the line: > >> (global-set-key "\C-x\C-g" 'save-buffers-kill-emacs) > >> > >> Alternatively, I have tried your modification to cygwin.bat and it fixes > >> the C-c mapping. > >> > >> My delete key works fine, but the backspace key is mapped to C-h. > >> > >> Does anyone have ideas how emacs gets the keys wrong? > > > > > > Are you using emacs in the console or under X? If you are using emacs in > > a console; try with X (assuming you have installed the X erver type > > startx). Alternatively you can try the native windows port of emacs?. > > I did load the X11 module and confirmed that the X version of emacs does > not share the same problem with C-c. I am still curious about why the > non-X version has this problem. C-c behaves as expected in bash and > other programs - causing the program to abort. I don't know anything > about how the keyboard layout is revealed to applications. I would > suspect the problem lies in a descriptor file somewhere. Any ideas on > where to look?
C-c is a mode specific command prefix. It is apparently dealt with in bindings.el. I don't understand it but I got there via Menu-Help-Describe-List Key Bindings and then following the links from C-c in the buffer listing the key bindings. I have installed all of cygwin on a slow PIII but I don't bother with emacs under X since I've heard that it's much slower than the native NT build (21.3, which is plenty fast for me). Ed. _______________________________________________ Help-gnu-emacs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs
