From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "B. T. Raven" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: C-M-anything gives no response Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2006 11:57:44 -0500 Organization: UseNetServer.com Message-ID: <98460$44b1358d$49f26ab$26779@DIALUPUSA.NET> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1152466841 29809 80.91.229.2 (9 Jul 2006 17:40:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2006 17:40:41 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 09 19:40:32 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FzdGg-0000KV-L9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Jul 2006 19:40:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FzdGg-0000ed-7M for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Jul 2006 13:40:30 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newscon06.news.prodigy.com!newscon02.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.net!atl-c08.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!pc03.usenetserver.com!DIALUPUSA.NET!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@usenetserver.com Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Trace: 9846044b1358da13a830e26779 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:140252 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:35878 Archived-At: "Robin Wilson" wrote in message news:m--dnefWmtPZZS3ZRVnyjw@pipex.net... > Hi > > I've been trying to use keybindings such as C-M-k, and have found that > none of them have worked. I've done some more investigation and, by > using C-h k, found that anything with C-M then any key is not being > recognised by emacs as anything at all! > > I've searched Google Groups and the internet in general, and everywhere > else I can think of but can't find a way to solve this. I'm using emacs > through cygwin on Windows if that helps, and it works in the native > windows port of emacs, but not in the cygwin version. > > Any ideas anyone? > > Cheers, > > Robin See if the cygwin build has something corresponding to the w32-alt-is-meta variable. Anyway even on the windows build there are some strange key-chord synonyms: C-h k C-M-m reports that M-RET is undefined. Since C-m is the same as RET, maybe it's impossible to get around this behavior ??? Ed.