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Ken Brown: > A separate issue that has arisen in this thread is that when emacs runs > in a cygwin terminal [*], it sees C-h as DEL instead of as the help key. > Can someone familiar with cygwin terminals help with this? =C2=A0I'm spec= ulating > again (bad habit), but it seems that the keycodes are being processed bef= ore > they reach emacs, so that C-h becomes indistinguishable from the Backspace > key. Careful, you're straying into a pseudo-religious warzone here. :) There's an ancient and pointless argument about whether the Backspace key should send ^H (0x08) or ^? (0x7F). See here for the whole sorry saga: http://www.ibb.net/~anne/keyboard.html Inevitably, Linux distributions are split on this issue, with Debian using ^? and Redhat using ^H. Cygwin is in the ^H camp, i.e. all its terminals send ^H by default. xterm, rxvt, and mintty can be configured to send ^? instead though, which, as you note, is particular useful with emacs as it leaves Ctrl+H available as the help shortcut. 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/
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