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Re: Ctrl-SPC suspends emacs under Cygwin


From: maierh
Subject: Re: Ctrl-SPC suspends emacs under Cygwin
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 21:21:39 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.090018 (Oort Gnus v0.18) Emacs/21.3 (windows-nt)

Khalid Sheta <sheta@lucent.com> writes:

> Just installed emacs 21.2.1 that comes with Cygwin on my WIN 2000 machine.
> Invoking emacs where it pops in its own X window (I have exceed
> running) works fine with full emacs bells and wistles.
> But, I want emacs -nw to work in the current window:
>
>   - If I do: emacs -nw in the current cygwin consol window (TERM= cygwin)
>     The C-c char ALWAYS maps to  keyboard-quit, i.e. equivalent to C-g
>   - If I fire an xterm window, everything works perfect EXCEPT that a
>     Ctrl-SPC suspends emacs, i.e. it is equivalent to susupend-emacs
>     instead of setting the mark EVEN if I explicitly set it inside emacs
>     indicating that bash (the cygwin shell) is capturing the Ctrl-spc before
>     emacs.
>
> The same behavior with xterm is exhibited with rxvt of Cygwin.
>
> Any help or pointers are appreciated.

As far as I know this is still not resolved. You might be look too in
the archives of cygwin@cygwin.com. One solution was to set CYGWIN to
"binmode ntsec tty". I tried it some months ago and there it worked
with other side effects but now it looks it won't work.

Harald


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