On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, kynn wrote: > 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
Quoting from the emacs package announcement (<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2004-04/msg00000.html>): New users please be aware: - You will want "tty" included in your CYGWIN environment variable setting, and probably "binmode". Look at the following for some documentation: http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html I think that pretty much says it all... Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT -- 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/
