Some key binding in Emacs not properly work in mintty.
Ken Brown
kbrown@cornell.edu
Mon Aug 2 14:09:00 GMT 2010
On 8/2/2010 7:37 AM, Andy Koppe wrote:
> On 1 August 2010 16:17, Ken Brown wrote:
>> On 8/1/2010 10:18 AM, Oleksandr Gavenko wrote:
>>>
>>> Selection by Ctrl-Left/Right/Down work properly.
>>> But for Ctrl-Up Emacs say:
>>>
>>> <select> is undefined
>>
>> I can't reproduce this. If it still happens after you update your Cygwin
>> installation (see below), please give a step-by-step recipe for reproducing
>> the problem.
>
> Looks like Oleksandr meant Shift- rather than Ctrl-, because I do get
> the "<select> is undefined" message with Shift-Up. Same thing happens
> in xterm, so I don't know what's up with that.
OK, I can reproduce that too. On the other hand, emacs running under
X11 does recognize Shift-Up.
>
>>> Also I have trouble with<C-backspace>. Emacs think that
>>> I press<undo>.
>>
>> I think this is a mintty issue. I'll let Andy comment.
>
> Unfortunately terminals don't have a standard keycode for
> Ctrl+Backspace, hence in emacs it won't do what's expected in any of
> them. In rxvt, it sends the same as plain Backspace. In xterm, it
> sends ^H, which will invoke the help. In mintty, it sends ^_ (i.e.
> 0x1F), which will indeed invoke Undo.
Again, emacs running under X11 recognizes the Ctrl-backspace keypress.
I guess the bottom line is that emacs runs best under X11.
Ken
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