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Re: C-M-anything gives no response


From: B. T. Raven
Subject: Re: C-M-anything gives no response
Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2006 11:57:44 -0500

"Robin Wilson" <r.t.wilson@rmplc.co.uk> wrote in message
m--dnefWmtPZZS3ZRVnyjw@pipex.net">news:m--dnefWmtPZZS3ZRVnyjw@pipex.net...
> Hi
>
> I've been trying to use keybindings such as C-M-k, and have found that
> none of them have worked. I've done some more investigation and, by
> using C-h k, found that anything with C-M then any key is not being
> recognised by emacs as anything at all!
>
> I've searched Google Groups and the internet in general, and everywhere
> else I can think of but can't find a way to solve this. I'm using emacs
> through cygwin on Windows if that helps, and it works in the native
> windows port of emacs, but not in the cygwin version.
>
> Any ideas anyone?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Robin

See if the cygwin build has something corresponding to the w32-alt-is-meta
variable. Anyway even on the windows build there are some strange
key-chord synonyms: C-h k C-M-m reports that M-RET is undefined. Since C-m
is the same as RET, maybe it's impossible to get around this behavior ???

Ed.



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