> Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 15:02:35 +0100 > From: Andy Koppe <andy dor koppe at gmail.com> > > 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? I'm speculating > > again (bad habit), but it seems that the keycodes are being processed before > > 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).
Actually, this holy war can be bypassed, without sacrificing Emacs correctly working on a console. What the console should send for that is the <Backspace> function key. Emacs already takes care of converting this to DEL. The following is from a native Windows build of Emacs 23 running under -nw in the Windows standard "Command Prompt" window: DEL (translated from <backspace>) runs the command delete-backward-char This message was caused by typing "C-h c" and then pressing the backspace key. -- 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/
