Emacs key bindings not working

Ken Brown kbrown@cornell.edu
Tue Apr 14 05:03:00 GMT 2009


On 4/13/2009 6:55 PM, Brandon Olivares wrote:
> Ken Brown wrote:
>> 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.

The simplest thing is probably to install the mintty package.  This will 
create a start menu shortcut Cygwin --> Mintty.  Start mintty from this 
shortcut, run emacs, and you should be all set.

Ken

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