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RE: Emacs key bindings not working
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On
> Behalf Of Ken Brown
> Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 6:20 PM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: Emacs key bindings not working
>
> This is a terminal issue. The key bindings work fine if you run emacs
> under X (which is the way I almost always use it) or under mintty.
> They
> probably work under rxvt also, but I haven't tried that. You may have
> to remove tty from your CYGWIN variable if you use these other
> terminals. (I'm not positive about that.)
>
Thanks. How do you do this though? I've never tried changing terminals.
I've tried xemacs, but it doesn't work with my screen reader.
Brandon
> > By the way, I know ruby-mode comes with version 22 and higher I
> think. Will
> > the emacs package in Cygwin be upgraded soon?
>
> The emacs maintainer has been having problems building new versions.
> See
>
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-02/msg00354.html
>
> If no one else volunteers, I'll offer to help get it done. At this
> point, however, it probably makes sense to wait for emacs 23, which
> should be released fairly soon. Also, emacs 22 and 23 need to be built
> with gcc4, and I'd like to wait until that's no longer experimental.
> If
> you're impatient, you can install Angelo Graziosi's build:
>
> http://www.webalice.it/angelo.graziosi/cygwin/emacs/Emacs.html
>
> Ken
>
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