I just installed Cygwin on my desktop. Everything works OK, except 'emacs -nw'.
If I invoke Emacs in a Cygwin terminal as 'emacs -nw', the backspace key behaves like C-h, i.e. the prefix for Emacs' help commands (C-h still behaves like C-h). More bizarrely, when I hit the combination C-x C-c, Emacs reports (via describe-key) that it sees C-x C-g. If I first ssh into a Linux host and run 'emacs -nw' there I get similar problems, but the details vary depending on how I establish the ssh connection. If I connect by first starting an xterm with something like xterm -e /usr/bin/bash -l & and then running 'ssh -Y' from the resulting shell, then when I run 'emacs -nw' on the remote host, Emacs sees both backspace and C-h as C-h. If instead I start the ssh session with xterm -e ssh -Y remote.host.net and run 'emacs -nw', then Emacs sees both backspace and C-h as "delete to the left of the cursor". In both of these remote-host scenarios, C-x C-c quits Emacs as usual. If I start Emacs as an X application, whether on the local workstation or on a remote host, backspace, C-h, and C-x C-c work perfectly. Also backspace works fine in every other terminal-based application (e.g. interactive bash, vi, etc.). How can I fix the mess with Emacs? I should point out that I log into remote hosts from many other systems other than the Cygwin system described here, so I need a solution that will not screw up the behavior of Emacs on remote hosts when I access them from local hosts other than Cygwin. Thanks! kj -- 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/
