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Frederick Bartlett | 28 Mar 2012 20:58

Emacs no longer processes ESC keypress

Hi!

I'm running Emacs 23.4 on 64-bit Windows 7 with Cygwin.

A couple of weeks ago, The C-X ESC ESC binding stopped working; simple investigation revealed that Emacs is not recognizing ESC key presses. Swapping keyboards did no good, and my Emacs setup on a 32-bit Windows 7/Cygwin laptop continues to behave.

Has anyone else seen this? I have no idea what I might have done to cause this. I did recently install Adobe's Creative Suite (main reason I'm still on Windows...), which is annoying enough that I don't want to redo it.

All clues gratefully received!

Thanks,
Fred

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Drew Adams | 28 Mar 2012 22:18

Re: Emacs no longer processes ESC keypress

> I'm running Emacs 23.4 on 64-bit Windows 7 with Cygwin.
	
> A couple of weeks ago, The C-X ESC ESC binding stopped working;
> simple investigation revealed that Emacs is not recognizing
> ESC key presses.

Is that with emacs -Q also?  If not, perhaps something in your init file is
causing the problem.

FWIW, on Windows XP, Emacs 23.4, emacs -Q, it works for me.

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Stephen F. Heffner | 29 Mar 2012 00:39

Re: Emacs no longer processes ESC keypress

Frederick -- the odds are that something has grabbed the ESC key, so Emacs
never sees it.  Any software you've recently installed is suspect.  There are
tools that will show you which app has priority to get notification of each
key (but I don't remember any names offhand).

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