From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Some key binding in Emacs not properly work in mintty.
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2010 14:09:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C56D199.9080602@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimP6rc8QPOxnxo6e_TsC8OoUEL3d1Qhj_5Qnnpn@mail.gmail.com>
On 8/2/2010 7:37 AM, Andy Koppe wrote:
> On 1 August 2010 16:17, Ken Brown wrote:
>> On 8/1/2010 10:18 AM, Oleksandr Gavenko wrote:
>>>
>>> Selection by Ctrl-Left/Right/Down work properly.
>>> But for Ctrl-Up Emacs say:
>>>
>>> <select> is undefined
>>
>> I can't reproduce this. If it still happens after you update your Cygwin
>> installation (see below), please give a step-by-step recipe for reproducing
>> the problem.
>
> Looks like Oleksandr meant Shift- rather than Ctrl-, because I do get
> the "<select> is undefined" message with Shift-Up. Same thing happens
> in xterm, so I don't know what's up with that.
OK, I can reproduce that too. On the other hand, emacs running under
X11 does recognize Shift-Up.
>
>>> Also I have trouble with<C-backspace>. Emacs think that
>>> I press<undo>.
>>
>> I think this is a mintty issue. I'll let Andy comment.
>
> Unfortunately terminals don't have a standard keycode for
> Ctrl+Backspace, hence in emacs it won't do what's expected in any of
> them. In rxvt, it sends the same as plain Backspace. In xterm, it
> sends ^H, which will invoke the help. In mintty, it sends ^_ (i.e.
> 0x1F), which will indeed invoke Undo.
Again, emacs running under X11 recognizes the Ctrl-backspace keypress.
I guess the bottom line is that emacs runs best under X11.
Ken
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-02 14:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-01 14:19 Oleksandr Gavenko
2010-08-01 15:17 ` Ken Brown
2010-08-02 11:37 ` Andy Koppe
2010-08-02 14:09 ` Ken Brown [this message]
2010-08-04 19:08 ` Andy Koppe
2010-08-04 19:40 ` Gary
2010-08-05 6:58 ` Oleksandr Gavenko
2010-08-05 7:30 ` Gary
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