X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SARE_MSGID_LONG40,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4A1EA704.3040500@cornell.edu> References: <4A168F2B.4020805@cornell.edu> <4A1C5831.6030008@cornell.edu> <99716858969849F89D65A4015B9948F7@HEPNTLTIM3> <4A1C9952.8040100@cornell.edu> <4A1D9D05.40407@cornell.edu> <838wkhsm5e.fsf@gnu.org> <4A1E7C50.8020505@cornell.edu> <416096c60905280702m6e4cb748ic305be3592d81c70@mail.gmail.com> <4A1EA704.3040500@cornell.edu> Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 12:07:57 -0400 Message-ID: <17393e3e0905280907s4cdf3c4ek9b8896dbba69cb48@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: emacs -nw keypad, tpu-edt.el, and C-h From: Matt Wozniski To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Ken Brown wrote: > On 5/28/2009 10:02 AM, Andy Koppe wrote: >> >> There's an ancient and pointless argument about whether the Backspace >> key should send ^H (0x08) or ^? (0x7F). > > I was asking something slightly different: No, you were asking the same thing, you just didn't grok part of the answer= ... > Can cygwin terminals be > configured so that emacs can tell the difference between the Backspace key > and "pressing h while holding down the control key"? "pressing h while holding down the control key" produces ^H (0x08). By default, this is also what backspace sends. As Andy says, many (all?) cygwin terminals can be set up to send ^? (0x7F) instead, leaving ^H to only be used by Ctrl+H > I've searched the cygwin mailing list archives, and the question has been > asked before. =C2=A0The answer in the past has always been No. > > If the answer is indeed no, then I'll have to see if there's a way to cha= nge > the emacs splash screen so that it offers F1 as the help key instead of C= -h. > =C2=A0I can also try the emacs-devel list; Cygwin can't be the only platf= orm > where this is an issue. Like Andy said, this would also be an issue on the default configuration of any of the RedHat derived Linuxes. ~Matt -- 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/