From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Charles_Davis@fws.gov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: getting , , etc. to work in GNU Emacs under cygwin Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 08:44:48 -0400 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1094733965 4512 80.91.224.253 (9 Sep 2004 12:46:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 12:46:05 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 09 14:45:54 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1C5OJG-00050k-00 for ; Thu, 09 Sep 2004 14:45:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C5OOa-0005VM-9j for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Sep 2004 08:51:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C5ONm-0005Hg-QT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Sep 2004 08:50:35 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C5ONj-0005F2-Ux for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Sep 2004 08:50:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C5ONj-0005EN-BZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Sep 2004 08:50:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [164.159.172.249] (helo=ifw9bct-smtp2.fws.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1C5OIF-0006tU-Ul for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Sep 2004 08:44:52 -0400 Original-Received: from fw9arlmail.irm.r9.fws.gov ([164.159.192.105]) by ifw9bct-smtp2.fws.net (Lotus Domino Release 6.5) with ESMTP id 2004090906444970-17395 ; Thu, 9 Sep 2004 06:44:49 -0600 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 5.0.5 September 22, 2000 X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on FW9ARLMAIL/ARL/R9/FWS/DOI(Release 5.0.13a |April 8, 2004) at 09/09/2004 08:44:49 AM, Itemize by SMTP Server on IFW9BCT-SMTP2/FWS/DOI(Release 6.5|September 26, 2003) at 09/09/2004 06:44:49 AM, Serialize by Router on IFW9BCT-SMTP2/FWS/DOI(Release 6.5|September 26, 2003) at 09/09/2004 06:44:51 AM, Serialize complete at 09/09/2004 06:44:51 AM 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: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:20552 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:20552 Luc Teirlinck wrote: > These are not ASCII control characters. Such keys only work if you >are directly communicating with a window system. If you are often in > situations where this is not the case, then the only solution I know >of is to only use non-ASCII control characters for window manager > bindings and other bindings that only make sense when directly >communicating with a window system. That is what I personally do. It >may be that certain operating systems (like MS Windows) do not make this >easy. Sorry for my denseness--my ignorance of system stuff is unbounded. "Directly communicating with the Window system": Well, I am sitting at my PC communicating with the machine to which my keyboard is attached. I can run the Windows version of Emacs on this machine without this difficulty. I can also run the DJGPP version of Emacs in a Command Prompt window without this difficulty as well. The problem crops up only when I open a CYGWIN window with a BASH shell and try to run the CYGWIN version of Emacs from there. Is that what you mean by "directly attached?" Incidentally, the BASH shell seems to understand the control modifier for these keys, for I can use them for command-line editing. Thanks for the help Charles Davis