From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: bill-ggroups@wishon.org (Bill Wishon) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Newbie, Emacs won't quit Date: 18 Sep 2002 13:13:17 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <42d681a7.0209181213.1bccbd33@posting.google.com> References: <87wuq57bj1.fsf@nomad.consult-meyers.com> <42d681a7.0209041553.741dca25@posting.google.com> <42d681a7.0209052013.fe22bd0@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1032380765 3605 127.0.0.1 (18 Sep 2002 20:26:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 20:26:05 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17rlOc-0000vn-00 for ; Wed, 18 Sep 2002 22:26:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17rlOu-00043W-00; Wed, 18 Sep 2002 16:26:20 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!nntp.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 31 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.104.84.248 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1032379997 11355 127.0.0.1 (18 Sep 2002 20:13:17 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 18 Sep 2002 20:13:17 GMT Original-Xref: nntp.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:105046 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:1600 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:1600 I figured it out by accident. In trying to get sshd working under cygwin (which I haven't done yet) I set the environment variable CYGWIN=binmode ntsec tty This fixes this problem for me, and I believe it is the tty portion of that environment variable that is the key one to changing the behaviour. ~>Bill bill-ggroups@wishon.org (Bill Wishon) wrote in message news:<42d681a7.0209052013.fe22bd0@posting.google.com>... > > You can use F1-k instead of C-h k - in general, F1 can be used as the help-command > > if your terminal absolutely won't distinguish between C-h and DEL. > > Okay workaround, but I usually like to remap all my F-Keys for other > purposes in my .emacs ( F1 for me is habitually ingrained to do the > same thing as "C-x 1") > > > That's really weird. Do you happen to have some sort of keymapping going on - .inputrc, > > bindkeys, wha? > > Nope, I did have a very small .inputrc, but I removed it and get the > same behaviour. > > I'm not familiar enough yet with /etc/termcap, but I'm thinking it > might be somewhere in there near the cygwin terminal type. When I get > the chance I'll do some man'ing / digging around that and see what I > find. > > ~>Bill