Re: cygwin emacs problems

[Mark Hickman <mark@mrhickman.org>]

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 <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, please
> 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 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?