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

[Rolf Campbell]

On 2010-05-13 17:13, Rolf Campbell wrote:
> On 2010-05-13 16:45, Ken Brown wrote:
>> 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
>>
> Sorry, I should have been more clear, I'm running in mintty.
> [reading emacs.README ...]
> Oh, I see. Is there any way to bind the resulting key codes? Can I use
> "M-[ 1 ; 8 u" as a key to bind?
>
>
To answer my own question: Yes, you can use
(global-set-key (kbd "M-[ 1 ; 8 u" ...))
to bind Ctrl+Alt+Shift+5 in mintty.

So, now that I know a better work-around, is this a bug in cygwin, 
mintty, or cygwin-emacs?


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