From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ken Brown Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: C-h, F1, Backspace, and splash screen Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 14:34:25 -0400 Message-ID: <4A1ED931.60807@cornell.edu> References: <4A1EBB33.2060602@cornell.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1243535681 13881 80.91.229.12 (28 May 2009 18:34:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 18:34:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 28 20:34:37 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1M9kR2-0004PJ-1s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 May 2009 20:34:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35846 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M9kR1-0007en-Dz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 May 2009 14:34:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M9kQx-0007eZ-6e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 May 2009 14:34:31 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M9kQs-0007Vq-Kc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 May 2009 14:34:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=52413 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M9kQs-0007VV-GE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 May 2009 14:34:26 -0400 Original-Received: from granite1.mail.cornell.edu ([128.253.83.141]:62179 helo=authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M9kQs-0000Kk-15 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 May 2009 14:34:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [128.84.234.191] (markov.math.cornell.edu [128.84.234.191]) (authenticated bits=0) by authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (8.13.1/8.12.10) with ESMTP id n4SIYO20015799 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Thu, 28 May 2009 14:34:24 -0400 (EDT) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 9 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:111156 Archived-At: On 5/28/2009 2:22 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> packages up to date. One annoyance that I've encountered, which may not be >> cygwin specific, is that C-h is not available as the help key when emacs is >> run in a text terminal. I've looked at the documentation for > > Nowadays under X11, this is considered as a bug in the > terminal's configuration (i.e. most/all terminals don't use C-h for the > backspace key any more). Can't you fix the text terminal? I think I wasn't specific enough in asking my question, though your answer might be the same. The problem doesn't occur under X11. It occurs in various terminals running outside of X (rxvt, mintty,...). It's true that the terminals can be configured so that backspace doesn't send C-h, but I'm trying to set things up to work nicely with the default cygwin configuration, in which backspace sends C-h. I don't have any control over these defaults. Ken