Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/10/15/12:30:40
On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Tom Roche wrote:
>> C-h is mapped to DEL in both X and -nox.
So as a result I see (out-of-the-box)
* Backspace removes character to left of mark
* Delete removes character under mark
* C-h removes character to left of mark
>> Is there any way to restore it to its normal help-command role
>> (without also screwing up Backspace and Delete)? I.e. make C-h,
>> Backspace, and Delete works in Cygwin the way they do in "normal"
>> NT emacs.
which is:
* Backspace removes character to left of mark
* Delete removes character under mark
* C-h prefixes help commands
Eli Zaretskii Tue, 15 Oct 2002 08:19:00 +0200
> Does the function normal-erase-is-backspace-mode help?
Well, with that
* Backspace prefixes help commands
* Delete removes character under mark
* C-h prefixes help commands
So I'm still only 2/3rds of the way there. How to make Backspace
remove the character left of mark?
Fredrik Staxeng 15 Oct 2002 12:30:13 +0200
> The backspace key should send ^? to the application running in
> cygwin window. Complain to the cygwin people, they ought to know
> better. Ask for xterm as the emulation while you at it, not yet
> another stupid emulator specific type.
Does anyone know how I might configure this? Backspace is now the only
aberrant key (in normal-erase-is-backspace-mode).
"Kris Thielemans" Tue, 15 Oct 2002 11:04:39
> does that mean you've sorted out the terminal problem then? (I
> didn't have any problems are doing the CYGWIN and TERM stuff)
Yes, but it didn't work until after I installed emacs-X11!
> by the way, if you don't have a /usr/lib (as you mentioned), there's
> something very wrong with your installation! For example, your
> package list mentions
> > libiconv2 1.8-2
> > libintl1 0.10.40-1
> > libintl2 0.11.5-1
> > libncurses5 5.2-1
> > libncurses6 5.2-8
> > libreadline4 4.1-2
> > libreadline5 4.3-2
> these should all be in /usr/lib (which is actually the same as /lib
> due to your mount points)
Hmm. I should probably try reinstalling. I did not delete my old
cygwin (1.3.10) install before putting the new one on--perhaps that
causes problems? Perhaps I should
* nuke all my cygwins
* install emacs-X11
> note that C-h does work if you launch emacs from an xterm
No, C-h was wrong for me "out of the box" after installing (and using)
emacs-X11.
> (or use the X version).
I'll try that. XWin comes up, now I need to learn how to set it up.
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