From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mark Hickman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: cygwin emacs problems Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 18:38:05 -0500 Message-ID: <54qYd.2674$3g2.2500@fe03.lga> References: <6ItXd.11119$%y7.9493@fe07.lga> <42308ca6$1_1@x-privat.org> <11328slshqr70fd@corp.supernews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1110584719 29388 80.91.229.2 (11 Mar 2005 23:45:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 23:45:19 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 12 00:45:19 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D9tof-0004lW-Am for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Mar 2005 00:45:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D9u3o-0004AU-GG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 19:00:52 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!HSNX.atgi.net!cyclone-sf.pbi.net!216.218.192.242!news.he.net!newsfeed1.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!hwmnpeer01.phx!hwmedia!hw-poster!fe03.lga.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: <11328slshqr70fd@corp.supernews.com> Original-Lines: 146 Original-X-Trace: idmkcnjgmiagocdekbhaihlnlaiklkbabpjjndokmmpbgpngligoffbbnjiklfmebejddkbhahlhiffembjcgollfjnicmkjdceidlljhdgjkaibofghhhnccnfcnoblbcfagklmibllijll Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 16:45:05 MST Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:129229 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:24779 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:24779 B.T. Raven wrote: > "Mark Hickman" wrote in message > news:R18Yd.16986$zq5.7087@fe07.lga... > >>Olive wrote: >> >>>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?. > >>I did load the X11 module and confirmed that the X version of emacs > > does > >>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? > > > 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.