On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Robert V Sasseen wrote: > I'm having a problem with Emacs under Cygwin bash that's been reported > before but as far as I can tell never been resolved. > See, e.g., > http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin/htsearch?config=htdig&restrict=&exclude=&method=and&format=builtin-long&sort=score&words=emacs+key+mapping > http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2002-12/msg00086.html > http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2002-12/msg00100.html > > The problem is with keys such as c-@ (set-mark-command) not having the proper > effect. In my case, c-@ has no apparent effect on setting the mark, even > though m-X describe bindings says it's bound to set-mark-command, and even > though I can do m-X set-mark-command and it sets the mark properly. The > keystroke has no apparent affect at all; it's as though it's getting > intercepted and filtered out along the way. > (I set CYGWIN=tty to resolve the (different) c-C problem discussed in the > archives, but the c-@ problem is unaffected by this setting.)
I think the Ctrl-Space (^@) character is not recognized by the CMD window (a.k.a. plain bash window) and not passed to the program running in that window. Thus, it may be impossible to capture/use that key. If you insist on using the "plain bash window", you might consider remapping the function to another key combo. > Most of the suggested fixes have been of the "don't do that" > variety--use XEmacs or NTEmacs instead of the Emacs that ships with > Cygwin, or use rxvt or an xterm in place of Cygwin bash (the latter two > ideas both requiring one to run X Windows, I believe). Not true for rxvt. It can (and will by default) run in Windows native mode. > I just installed the latest Cygwin so I'm running GNU bash version > 3.00.16(11) and GNU Emacs 21.2.1. It's running on a new Compaq PC > running Windows XP Media Center Edition. That's not how useful Cygwin installation information is reported. Please review and follow <http://cygwin.com/problems.html> if you have further questions (though in this case using rxvt might be the solution you are looking for). > Like those earlier posters with this problem, I'm not too sophisticated > about Emacs, terminals, and the like. But I'd like to truly solve this > and I'll try anyone's diagnostic suggestions. XEmacs also comes with Cygwin, and I've heard good things about it from people who actually use emacs (I'm a vi person myself). 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! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- 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/
