From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Olive Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: cygwin emacs problems Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 19:10:26 +0100 Organization: X-Privat NNTP Server - http://www.x-privat.org Message-ID: <42308ca6$1_1@x-privat.org> References: <6ItXd.11119$%y7.9493@fe07.lga> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1110478574 26974 80.91.229.2 (10 Mar 2005 18:16:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 18:16:14 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 10 19:16:13 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D9SBR-0006a7-IS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 19:14:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D9SQM-0003Uj-Kv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 13:30:18 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040618 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: <6ItXd.11119$%y7.9493@fe07.lga> Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: $$_ewcpdimnf7l5_.x-privat.org Original-Lines: 73 X-Authenticated-User: $$s059zlu66nq1tvzvcvj6lkm_d Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@x-privat.org Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!news.moat.net!x-privat.org!not-for-mail Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:129196 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-MailScanner-To: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:24745 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:24745 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 in emacs tutorial. And so just need >>to keep in mind that 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- 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- 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?.