Re: cygwin emacs problems

[Mark Hickman <mark@mrhickman.org>]

B.T. Raven wrote:
> "Mark Hickman" <mark@mrhickman.org> wrote in message
> news:R18Yd.16986$zq5.7087@fe07.lga...
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>>Olive wrote:
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>>>Mark Hickman wrote:
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>>>
>>>>Elim Qiu wrote:
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>>>>
>>>>>Hi List,
>>>>>
>>>>>Forgive me if my question is wrong to the list. I'm new to cygwin
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> and
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>>>>>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
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> cm-test
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>>>>>*** The 1st trouble was that it does not quit (c-x c-c not
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> working).
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>>>>>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
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> backspace,
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>>>>>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,
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> please
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>>>>>try letting cygwin newbies know too.
>>>>>
>>>>>Thanks!
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>Compaq Armada E500 emacs 21.2.1 i686-pc-cygwin
>>>>
>>>>I have had similar problems.  By using describe-key-briefly I found
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> that
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>>>> in emacs the C-c combination is being interpreted as C-g.  Since
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> C-xC-g
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>>>>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
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> fixes
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>>>>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?
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>>>
>>>Are you using emacs in the console or under X? If you are using
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> emacs in
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>>>a console; try with X (assuming you have installed the X erver type
>>>startx). Alternatively you can try the native windows port of
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> emacs?.
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>>I did load the X11 module and confirmed that the X version of emacs
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> does
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>>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?
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> 
> 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.
> 
Thanks, Ed.
I thought about chasing the bindings, but think the problem is elsewhere 
because if I invoke help-describe-key, when I type C-c, emacs reports 
that C-g is "keyboard-quit".  I don't think emacs is receiving the 
correct key-code.