Re: HOME and END keys insert ~

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On Apr 24, 12:11 pm, Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> wrote:
> > From: "jhc0...@gmail.com" <jhc0...@gmail.com>
> > Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 01:25:17 -0700 (PDT)
>
> > I'm running Cygwin's Emacs in rxvt (no X, or screen right now). HOME
> > and END keys don't work in Emacs - they just insert ~. These keys work
> > in bash and Vim, so this looks like an Emacs problem. I did M-x
> > describe-bindings, and <home> is set correctly to go to the beginning
> > of a line. Why doesn't it work?!
>
> > C-h doesn't work either, but I don't use it so much, I can just type
> > "M-x help".
> > Also, I wouldn't mind getting F1-F12 to work.
>
> I think you will be better off asking these questions on the Cygwin
> list, because all of those keys work for me, both on GNU/Linux and in
> the native Windows build of Emacs.  So I think there is something
> specific to Cygwin at work here.

BTW, I thought I'd debug the problem and did

M-x describe-key<return><home>

and Emacs just inserted "~" in the buffer that was open. Emacs never
stops disappointing me :-(