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 X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 17:23:42 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com cc: "H. James de St. Germain" Subject: Re: control-spacebar In-Reply-To: <6.0.1.1.0.20040108170956.04118050@127.0.0.1> Message-ID: References: <20040108204601.C1DDB3C063@juggler.cs.utah.edu> <20040108220309.E7E393C063@juggler.cs.utah.edu> <6.0.1.1.0.20040108170956.04118050@127.0.0.1> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Larry Hall wrote: > At 05:03 PM 1/8/2004, H. James de St. Germain you wrote: > >(But doesn't everyone just work in emacs anyway?) > > No, if I'm one of "everyone". Hey, I personally use vi(m). But I do know people who'd like to boot up emacs as their OS. :-) > >Then when you start cygwin, it pops up an rxvt terminal for you. > > > >NOTE: in the past I have had > > > > setenv CYGWIN "tty" > > > >in my resource file (.tcshrc) and this causes the rxvt to core dump > >upon exit. Removing this line seems to have fixed the problem. > > Right. "tty" is a Cygwin option that needs to be set *before* cygwin DLL > is loaded. That means it needs to be set before launching your cygwin.bat > and before any Cygwin services. One could argue that setting it where you > did shouldn't cause a crash but that just degenerates to a PTC case IMO. Technically, it needs to be set before launching any Cygwin programs from cygwin.bat. So, you actually can set it *in* cygwin.bat... Just my 2c. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/