Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <3EB25DDD.5040102@heaton6.freeserve.co.uk> Date: Fri, 02 May 2003 13:00:29 +0100 From: Garry Heaton User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 X-Accept-Language: en, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Remote access keymap problem in Emacs References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Fri, 2 May 2003, Garry Heaton wrote: > > >>I'm using Cygwin on XP Pro to access a console-based Red Hat server via >>ssh. Everything is fine except for Emacs which will not recognise the >>Ctrl+ combination for setting the Mark. Any ideas? I'm a bit >>green on the issue of which end of the client/server supplies which bit >>of the networked interface. I tried loading different keymaps on the >>server but the result was the same. Red Hat's ENV shows TERM=cygwin so >>that's not a problem. I also accessed this server from a Mandrake >>machine and didn't have the problem so it appears to be a Cygwin issue. >> >>Garry Heaton > > > Garry, > > The problem is likely not Cygwin per se, but Windows (or, rather, the > Windows console). Apparently, the console doesn't recognize the > Ctrl-Space combination, and treats it as a regular Space. So, no special > key sequence is sent for the applications to pick up. At least, that's > what I see (with CYGWIN=notty). Try it with CYGWIN=tty, it might just > work for you. This is not related to ssh, btw. > > The only other solution, really, is trying a terminal application that > doesn't use the Windows console, e.g. rxvt (or, if you have X installed, > xterm). In both of these Ctrl-Space should work just fine (works for me > in an xterm). > Igor PuTTY to the rescue! Voila, fully-functioning Emacs ..... err, so far :-( Garry -- 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/