[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {emacs,emacs-X11,emacs-el}-23.2-1

Ken Brown kbrown@cornell.edu
Thu May 13 21:21:00 GMT 2010


On 5/13/2010 4:31 PM, Rolf Campbell wrote:
> On 2010-05-10 06:22, Ken Brown wrote:
>> New releases of the emacs, emacs-X11, and emacs-el packages are now
>> available, 23.2-1, leaving 23.1-10 as previous.
> I've been using the native W32 port of emacs for years.  I tried using
> the native cygwin build of it and ran into a problem: I can't seem to
> bind all key combinations.
> - Alt+F3 (or Alt+any F-key) seem to have no effect at all.
> - Ctrl+Alt+Shift+5:  I bind it using (global-set-key (kbd "C-M-%" ...),
> but pressing Ctrl+Alt+Shift+5 results in emacs complaining that "M-[ 1 ;
> 8 u" is undefined.

Are you using emacs in the Cygwin console?  If so, many key combinations 
won't work as you expect.  This is documented in 
/usr/share/doc/Cygwin/emacs.README.  You'll have better luck running 
emacs in mintty.  Or for an interface that is more like the native Win32 
build, run emacs under X11.

Ken

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