2009/5/31 Ken Brown: > As I long-time emacs user, I have to say that I have never been tempted to > type Ctrl-Backspace in emacs. But, as a result of this discussion, I just > tried it in three different settings and got three different behaviors. > (The three settings were: emacs under X, emacs in a Cygwin console with the > latest snapshot installed, and emacs in mintty with the "Backspace sends ^?" > option.) The third one was actually the most surprising to me, because ^_ > is the "undo" command in emacs.
Hmm, so Alt+Backspace and Ctrl+Backspace in emacs would end up the other way round from Windows conventions then, where Alt+Backspace often is Undo and Ctrl+Backspace is delete word. > In view of this chaos, I think cgf did the right thing in deciding to leave > Ctrl-Backspace alone. Currently the code sends ^H for Alt+Backspace, which clobbers 'kill word' in emacs, so that still needs to either move to Ctrl+Backspace or be removed altogether. Andy -- 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/
