HOME and END keys insert ~

HOME and END keys insert ~

[jhc0033]

I'm running Cygwin's Emacs in rxvt (no X, or screen right now). HOME
and END keys don't work in Emacs - they just insert ~. These keys work
in bash and Vim, so this looks like an Emacs problem. I did M-x
describe-bindings, and <home> is set correctly to go to the beginning
of a line. Why doesn't it work?!

C-h doesn't work either, but I don't use it so much, I can just type
"M-x help".
Also, I wouldn't mind getting F1-F12 to work.

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Re: HOME and END keys insert ~

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "jhc0033@gmail.com" <jhc0033@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 01:25:17 -0700 (PDT)
> 
> I'm running Cygwin's Emacs in rxvt (no X, or screen right now). HOME
> and END keys don't work in Emacs - they just insert ~. These keys work
> in bash and Vim, so this looks like an Emacs problem. I did M-x
> describe-bindings, and <home> is set correctly to go to the beginning
> of a line. Why doesn't it work?!
> 
> C-h doesn't work either, but I don't use it so much, I can just type
> "M-x help".
> Also, I wouldn't mind getting F1-F12 to work.

I think you will be better off asking these questions on the Cygwin
list, because all of those keys work for me, both on GNU/Linux and in
the native Windows build of Emacs.  So I think there is something
specific to Cygwin at work here.

Re: HOME and END keys insert ~

[jhc0033]

On Apr 24, 12:11 pm, Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> wrote:
> > From: "jhc0...@gmail.com" <jhc0...@gmail.com>
> > Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 01:25:17 -0700 (PDT)
>
> > I'm running Cygwin's Emacs in rxvt (no X, or screen right now). HOME
> > and END keys don't work in Emacs - they just insert ~. These keys work
> > in bash and Vim, so this looks like an Emacs problem. I did M-x
> > describe-bindings, and <home> is set correctly to go to the beginning
> > of a line. Why doesn't it work?!
>
> > C-h doesn't work either, but I don't use it so much, I can just type
> > "M-x help".
> > Also, I wouldn't mind getting F1-F12 to work.
>
> I think you will be better off asking these questions on the Cygwin
> list, because all of those keys work for me, both on GNU/Linux and in
> the native Windows build of Emacs.  So I think there is something
> specific to Cygwin at work here.

BTW, I thought I'd debug the problem and did

M-x describe-key<return><home>

and Emacs just inserted "~" in the buffer that was open. Emacs never
stops disappointing me :-(

Re: HOME and END keys insert ~

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "jhc0033@gmail.com" <jhc0033@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:24:08 -0700 (PDT)
> 
> BTW, I thought I'd debug the problem and did
> 
> M-x describe-key<return><home>
> 
> and Emacs just inserted "~" in the buffer that was open.

Try "C-h l" (that's the letter ell, not the digit one), or "F1 l", and
you will see what keystrokes Emacs received from the OS.

Btw, is this in a windowed session or in a text terminal/xterm?  If
the latter, perhaps your termcap/terminfo and/or $TERM are not set up
correctly: Emacs relies on them to interpret special keys like HOME
and END.

> Emacs never stops disappointing me :-(

It never disappoints me, but maybe that's because I don't use Cygwin.

Re: HOME and END keys insert ~

[jhc0033]

On Apr 25, 1:02 am, Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> wrote:
> > From: "jhc0...@gmail.com" <jhc0...@gmail.com>
> > Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:24:08 -0700 (PDT)
>
> > BTW, I thought I'd debug the problem and did
>
> > M-x describe-key<return><home>
>
> > and Emacs just inserted "~" in the buffer that was open.
>
> Try "C-h l" (that's the letter ell, not the digit one), or "F1 l", and
> you will see what keystrokes Emacs received from the OS.
>
> Btw, is this in a windowed session or in a text terminal/xterm?  If
> the latter, perhaps your termcap/terminfo and/or $TERM are not set up
> correctly: Emacs relies on them to interpret special keys like HOME
> and END.

Without doing anything myself, my TERM was set to xterm and COLORTERM
to rxvt-xpm

Exporting both variables as rxvt-cygwin-native cured many of my
problems with emacs, although I wonder if this belongs in .bashrc.

Re: HOME and END keys insert ~

[jhc0033]

On Apr 25, 7:13 am, "jhc0...@gmail.com" <jhc0...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Exporting both variables as rxvt-cygwin-native cured many of my
> problems with emacs,

I spoke too soon. HOME and END work, but C-h works as DELETE, Shift-
return can not be rebound. When I ssh to a Linux machine, emacs can
not be started regardless of TERM/COLORTERM setting. Probably more
problems. Emacs...