Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <3DAE271F.8070006@sympatico.ca> Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 22:57:35 -0400 From: Rocco Corsi User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020408 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gareth Pearce CC: nano-devel@gnu.org, cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin version of GNU Nano does not accept CTRL-C References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Gareth Pearce wrote: > > > >> Hello >> >> I don't know if anyone has noticed, but it appears that when >> CTRL-C is pressed in Nano it is not recognized under Cygwin. Is this >> normal behavior under Windows, is the CTRL-C somehow intercepted and >> stripped out? I am using WinXP. > > > As mentioned in the cygwin archives - the CYGWIN enviornment variable > needs to be set to include tty for ctrl-C to work (and some other > things) - See the cygwin users guide for details on the CYGWIN > environment variable. The tty option needs to be set Before you start > cygwin. > > Gareth - cygwin nano maintainer. Perfect, just added "CYGWIN=tty" to the environment variables and all is fine. Thanks. Maybe a dumb question. Why does Cygwin not automatically update environment variables as part of the installation? Or at least ask if they should be updated? Rocco -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/