Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 16:16:15 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: "H. James de St. Germain" cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: control-spacebar In-Reply-To: <20040108204601.C1DDB3C063@juggler.cs.utah.edu> Message-ID: References: <20040108204601.C1DDB3C063@juggler.cs.utah.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, H. James de St. Germain wrote: > Control spacebar doesn't work in the standard cygwin terminal. This is > a problem for those of us who love emacs... > > From the cryptic posts I've found on the web, it seems that this results > because the "C-spacebar" is not a recognized ASCII value and thus is not > being "sent"???? The fix might be as simple as adding a corresponding row for 'space' to the keytable array in line 1662 of winsup/cygwin/fhandler_console.cc. > Could someone who understands what is going on give us all a good > description of why C-SPC is not working and how, if there is a way, we > can get around this problem. For a temporary workaround, use rxvt. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/