Re: C-M-anything gives no response

[Eric Hanchrow <offby1@blarg.net>]

>>>>> "Robin" == Robin Wilson <r.t.wilson@rmplc.co.uk> writes:

    Robin> Hi I've been trying to use keybindings such as C-M-k, and
    Robin> have found that none of them have worked.  I've done some
    Robin> more investigation and, by using C-h k, found that anything
    Robin> with C-M then any key is not being recognised by emacs as
    Robin> anything at all!

    Robin> I've searched Google Groups and the internet in general,
    Robin> and everywhere else I can think of but can't find a way to
    Robin> solve this.  I'm using emacs through cygwin on Windows if
    Robin> that helps, and it works in the native windows port of
    Robin> emacs, but not in the cygwin version.

    Robin> Any ideas anyone?

I realize this isn't particularly helpful, but: what you're describing
is common when Emacs runs in console mode, as opposed to graphical
mode.  In some systems, it's possible to fiddle the console to get it
to generate the right events when you press control-meta-whatever; in
others, it isn't.

You might try running Emacs under Cygwin's rxvt, rather than using the
window created by cmd.exe.  As I recall, that's some improvement, but
it's still not perfect.  The best solution that I recall involved
getting a hacked up version of PuTTY
(http://gecko.gc.maricopa.edu/~medgar/puttycyg/), and using that as a
terminal emulator -- it gets the Meta key right.

After saying all that, though, I will confess: I never use the Cygwin
Emacs; instead I use the native Win32 emacs, with cygwin tools -- i.e.,
I put Cygwin on Emacs' path, and run bash as my shell, and have
find-dired-find-program set to 'find.exe', etc.

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