Re: cygwin emacs problems

[B.T. Raven]

"Mark Hickman" <mark@mrhickman.org> wrote in message
news:R18Yd.16986$zq5.7087@fe07.lga...
> Olive wrote:
> > Mark Hickman wrote:
> >
> >> Elim Qiu wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi List,
> >>>
> >>> Forgive me if my question is wrong to the list. I'm new to cygwin
and
> >>> emacs.
> >>>
> >>> I installed cygwin with emacs on my thinkpad T22 + win2k  as:
> >>> GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (i686-pc-cygwin, X toolkit)  of 2004-03-22 on
cm-test
> >>>
> >>> *** The 1st trouble was that it does not quit (c-x c-c not
working).
> >>> After some search, I modified cygwin.bat  as:
> >>>
> >>> =============================
> >>> @echo off
> >>>
> >>> E:
> >>> chdir E:\cygwin\bin
> >>> set CYGWIN=tty notitle glob
> >>> bash --login -i
> >>> ==============================
> >>> The problem was gone (although i'm not so sure that's the proper
> >>> thing to do)
> >>>
> >>> *** The 2nd trouble was the delete key. According to the emacs
> >>> tutorial, this should be the backspace key in my case.  But it
> >>> doesn't work. The problem remains the same on my Dell desktop
> >>> (same os, same cygwin+emacs). I figured that instead of
backspace,
> >>> C-backspace works as <Delete> in emacs tutorial. And so just need
> >>> to keep in mind that <Delete> equals C-backspace for me (both
> >>> thinkpad and dell worked that way)
> >>>
> >>> *** Now the 3rd trouble: cannot figure out what the key mapping
> >>> for M-<Delete> although M-d works just fine (M=alt in my case).
> >>>
> >>> Now i'm stuck at %30 part of the emacs tutorial and looking for
> >>> hints on M-<Delete> key mapping....
> >>>
> >>> I'm starting doubt about what i did: maybe there are some total
> >>> solution for setting emacs on cygwin which makes emacs work just
> >>> like the emacs tutorial described?  Cygwin is there for years and
> >>> many people should gone through this already.
> >>>
> >>> So i'm looking for help here. And if you know all these about,
please
> >>> try letting cygwin newbies know too.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks!
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
>
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> >>
> >>
> >> Compaq Armada E500 emacs 21.2.1 i686-pc-cygwin
> >>
> >> I have had similar problems.  By using describe-key-briefly I found
that
> >>  in emacs the C-c combination is being interpreted as C-g.  Since
C-xC-g
> >> is undefined, I can create a .emacs file with the line:
> >> (global-set-key "\C-x\C-g" 'save-buffers-kill-emacs)
> >>
> >> Alternatively, I have tried your modification to cygwin.bat and it
fixes
> >> the C-c mapping.
> >>
> >> My delete key works fine, but the backspace key is mapped to C-h.
> >>
> >> Does anyone have ideas how emacs gets the keys wrong?
> >
> >
> > Are you using emacs in the console or under X? If you are using
emacs in
> > a console; try with X (assuming you have installed the X erver type
> > startx). Alternatively you can try the native windows port of
emacs?.
>
> I did load the X11 module and confirmed that the X version of emacs
does
> not share the same problem with C-c.  I am still curious about why the
> non-X version has this problem.  C-c behaves as expected in bash and
> other programs - causing the program to abort.  I don't know anything
> about how the keyboard layout is revealed to applications.  I would
> suspect the problem lies in a descriptor file somewhere.  Any ideas on
> where to look?

C-c is a mode specific command prefix. It is apparently dealt with in
bindings.el. I don't understand it but I got there via
Menu-Help-Describe-List Key Bindings and then following the links from
C-c in the buffer listing the key bindings.
I have installed all of cygwin on a slow PIII but I don't bother with
emacs under X since I've heard that it's much slower than the native NT
build (21.3, which is plenty fast for me).

Ed.