X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_SORBS_WEB,RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com connect(): No such file or directory From: Rolf Campbell Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {emacs,emacs-X11,emacs-el}-23.2-1 Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 17:20:59 -0400 Lines: 34 Message-ID: References: <4BEC64ED DOT 3060008 AT cornell DOT edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4 In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On 2010-05-13 17:13, Rolf Campbell wrote: > On 2010-05-13 16:45, Ken Brown wrote: >> On 5/13/2010 4:31 PM, Rolf Campbell wrote: >>> On 2010-05-10 06:22, Ken Brown wrote: >>>> New releases of the emacs, emacs-X11, and emacs-el packages are now >>>> available, 23.2-1, leaving 23.1-10 as previous. >>> I've been using the native W32 port of emacs for years. I tried using >>> the native cygwin build of it and ran into a problem: I can't seem to >>> bind all key combinations. >>> - Alt+F3 (or Alt+any F-key) seem to have no effect at all. >>> - Ctrl+Alt+Shift+5: I bind it using (global-set-key (kbd "C-M-%" ...), >>> but pressing Ctrl+Alt+Shift+5 results in emacs complaining that "M-[ 1 ; >>> 8 u" is undefined. >> >> Are you using emacs in the Cygwin console? If so, many key combinations >> won't work as you expect. This is documented in >> /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/emacs.README. You'll have better luck running >> emacs in mintty. Or for an interface that is more like the native Win32 >> build, run emacs under X11. >> >> Ken >> > Sorry, I should have been more clear, I'm running in mintty. > [reading emacs.README ...] > Oh, I see. Is there any way to bind the resulting key codes? Can I use > "M-[ 1 ; 8 u" as a key to bind? > > To answer my own question: Yes, you can use (global-set-key (kbd "M-[ 1 ; 8 u" ...)) to bind Ctrl+Alt+Shift+5 in mintty. So, now that I know a better work-around, is this a bug in cygwin, mintty, or cygwin-emacs? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple