Re: C-M-anything gives no response

[Robin Wilson <r.t.wilson@rmplc.co.uk>]

Eric Hanchrow wrote:
> After saying all that, though, I will confess: I never use the Cygwin
> Emacs; instead I use the native Win32 emacs, with cygwin tools -- i.e.,
> I put Cygwin on Emacs' path, and run bash as my shell, and have
> find-dired-find-program set to 'find.exe', etc.
> 

Hi

Thanks for your advice both of you. In some ways I prefer the native 
Win32 emacs - but that seems to have a few problems for me with regards 
to things like filename completion. In the console emacs, if I do C-x 
C-f and type a file or directory name and press TAB it completes it, but 
in Win32 emacs it only seems to do that for a very few files, which is 
rather strange. Any ideas about that? Apart from that I'd quite like to 
use the Win32 emacs as it lets you use the menu's properly (which is 
handy when you're in an unfamilier mode and you want to check out the 
commands available graphically).

I am using cygwin in rxvt at the moment, but it doesn't seem to be any 
different in this regard to plain console. I have found that ESC-C-k 
will work instead of C-M-k, but that is a bit of a pain to use.

I was going to use emacs in X under Cygwin, but I have a rather strange 
problem with XFCE under Cygwin which, as yet, no-one on the cygwin 
mailing list has responded to.

Cheers,

Robin