bug#72490: edt emulation

[Jeremy Bryant via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>]

Angelo Borsotti <angelo.borsotti@gmail.com> writes:

> From: angelo.borsotti@gmail.com
> To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: 29.4; edt emulation
> --text follows this line--
>
> Hello,
>
> I have just downloaded emacs 29.4, and run the edt emulation.
> Emacs prompts me to define the keyboard mapping, which I did.
> It saves it in my home\appdata\roaming, withe name
> .emacs-gnu-W32-keys,
> which is different from the one indicated in th documentation.
> This, seemingly, is not important because when I run emacs again,
> it loads it anyway.
> The problem is that the arrows do not work!

What is the expected behaviour in this situation?

> If I run emacs, and enter M-x edt-emulation-on and C-h k <right
> arrow>
> it displays:
>
> <right> runs the command edt-cut, which is an interactive
> native-compiled Lisp function in ‘edt.el’.
>
> It is bound to <right>.
>
> (edt-cut)
>
> Deletes selected text but copies to kill ring.
>
> How can I solve the problem?
>
>
> In GNU Emacs 29.4 (build 2, x86_64-w64-mingw32) of 2024-07-05 built
> on
>  AVALON
> Windowing system distributor 'Microsoft Corp.', version 10.0.19045
> System Description: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro (v10.0.2009.19045.4651)
>
> Configured using:
>  'configure --with-modules --without-dbus --with-native-compilation=
> aot
>  --without-compress-install --with-sqlite3 --with-tree-sitter
>  CFLAGS=-O2'
>
> Configured features:
> ACL GIF GMP GNUTLS HARFBUZZ JPEG JSON LCMS2 LIBXML2 MODULES
> NATIVE_COMP
> NOTIFY W32NOTIFY PDUMPER PNG RSVG SOUND SQLITE3 THREADS TIFF
> TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS TREE_SITTER WEBP XPM ZLIB
>
> (NATIVE_COMP present but libgccjit not available)
>
> Important settings:
>   value of $LANG: ENU
>   locale-coding-system: cp1252
>
> Major mode: Messages
>
> Minor modes in effect:
>   tooltip-mode: t
>   global-eldoc-mode: t
>   show-paren-mode: t
>   electric-indent-mode: t
>   mouse-wheel-mode: t
>   tool-bar-mode: t
>   menu-bar-mode: t
>   file-name-shadow-mode: t
>   global-font-lock-mode: t
>   font-lock-mode: t
>   blink-cursor-mode: t
>   buffer-read-only: t
>   line-number-mode: t
>   indent-tabs-mode: t
>   transient-mark-mode: t
>   auto-composition-mode: t
>   auto-encryption-mode: t
>   auto-compression-mode: t
>
> Load-path shadows:
> None found.
>
> Features:
> (pp shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug message mailcap yank-media puny
> dired
> dired-loaddefs rfc822 mml mml-sec password-cache epa derived epg
> rfc6068
> epg-config gnus-util mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231
> mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums
> mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils time-date subr-x shortdoc
> text-property-search help-fns radix-tree help-mode cl-loaddefs cl-lib
> edt picture ehelp rmc iso-transl tooltip cconv eldoc paren electric
> uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type elisp-mode mwheel
> dos-w32
> ls-lisp disp-table term/w32-win w32-win w32-vars term/common-win
> tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list replace
> newcomment text-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register page tab-bar
> menu-bar
> rfn-eshadow isearch easymenu timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock
> font-lock syntax font-core term/tty-colors frame minibuffer nadvice
> seq
> simple cl-generic indonesian philippine cham georgian utf-8-lang
> misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese
> eucjp-ms
> cp51932 hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian
> cyrillic chinese composite emoji-zwj charscript charprop case-table
> epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help abbrev obarray oclosure cl-preloaded
> button
> loaddefs theme-loaddefs faces cus-face macroexp files window
> text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule
> custom widget keymap hashtable-print-readable backquote threads
> w32notify w32 lcms2 multi-tty make-network-process native-compile
> emacs)
>
> Memory information:
> ((conses 16 69706 12307)
>  (symbols 48 5769 4)
>  (strings 32 18300 1292)
>  (string-bytes 1 485882)
>  (vectors 16 12264)
>  (vector-slots 8 284398 17118)
>  (floats 8 104 122)
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>  (buffers 984 16))