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 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: RE: Exiting Emacs (Attn: emacs maintainer) Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 09:17:54 -0700 Message-ID: <1151EBFEB760994A96A622B835374E0F13849A@PA-ECLUSTER1.vmware.com> From: "David Masterson" To: X-IsSubscribed: yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id j65GIVVR023850 cygwin-owner@cygwin.com wrote: > On Sat, 2 Jul 2005, Nick Kirchner wrote: > >> I just installed Cygwin on my Windows 98 computer and tried playing >> around with Emacs. Having toyed with it a little in the past, I know >> that C-x C-c is supposed to exit the program. As you may have >> guessed, C-x C-c did nothing other than beep. >> >> What exactly is going wrong here? > > As mentioned in the announcement > (), you > need to have "tty" in your CYGWIN environment variable. This needs > to be set *before* the shell is started, so good places would be > /Cygwin.bat or the system environment (i.e., don't do this in shell > startup files). Does this apply to using (X)Emacs under X? David Masterson -- 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/