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

[Ken Brown]

On 5/13/2010 5:20 PM, Rolf Campbell wrote:
> 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?

I don't know the answer.  I tried Ctrl+Alt+Shift+5 in emacs under X11, 
and it seems to work fine, i.e., it is recognized as C-M-%.  I also 
tried it in an xterm window ('emacs -nw'), and it fails there but in a 
different way than in mintty: emacs sees it as C-%.

Maybe Andy (mintty author/maintainer) can explain what's going on.

Ken

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