From: "jhc0033@gmail.com" <jhc0033@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: HOME and END keys insert ~
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:24:08 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5944d77a-abae-42f6-8098-347d67aa8181@v26g2000prm.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.10786.1209064324.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
On Apr 24, 12:11 pm, Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> wrote:
> > From: "jhc0...@gmail.com" <jhc0...@gmail.com>
> > Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 01:25:17 -0700 (PDT)
>
> > I'm running Cygwin's Emacs in rxvt (no X, or screen right now). HOME
> > and END keys don't work in Emacs - they just insert ~. These keys work
> > in bash and Vim, so this looks like an Emacs problem. I did M-x
> > describe-bindings, and <home> is set correctly to go to the beginning
> > of a line. Why doesn't it work?!
>
> > C-h doesn't work either, but I don't use it so much, I can just type
> > "M-x help".
> > Also, I wouldn't mind getting F1-F12 to work.
>
> I think you will be better off asking these questions on the Cygwin
> list, because all of those keys work for me, both on GNU/Linux and in
> the native Windows build of Emacs. So I think there is something
> specific to Cygwin at work here.
BTW, I thought I'd debug the problem and did
M-x describe-key<return><home>
and Emacs just inserted "~" in the buffer that was open. Emacs never
stops disappointing me :-(
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2008-04-24 8:25 HOME and END keys insert ~ jhc0033
2008-04-24 19:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2008-04-25 4:24 ` jhc0033 [this message]
2008-04-25 8:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2008-04-25 14:13 ` jhc0033
2008-04-25 14:35 ` jhc0033
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