Subject: Re: NTEmacs shell/CygWin: should control-C work?
From: "Ehud Karni" <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 23:25:54 +0200

On Fri, 12 Jan 2001 14:46:36 -0500, Daniel Barclay <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
> "David M. Karr" wrote:
> > 
> >   Daniel> In a shell buffer in NTEmacs configured per the shell-setup instructions
> >   Daniel> in the CygWin FAQ at http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/faq/faq.html#SEC5,
> >   Daniel> control-C doesn't seem to work.
> ...
> > This bites me several times a day.  It is a known problem...
> 
> Do you mean it's a known problem that crops up (for some people), or that
> it simply doesn't work at all (for anyone combining Emacs and CygWin)?

I think he meant it is a general problem for everyone. The base of this
is that the emacs shell buffer is not a tty. You can check it by doing
`stty', you'll get: "stty: standard input: Not a character device".

And hence, it is not a tty ==> it will not generate SIGINT for ^C.

Ehud.

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