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: Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 00:13:03 -0700 From: Joshua Daniel Franklin Reply-To: Joshua Daniel Franklin To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Exiting Emacs (Attn: User's Guide maintainer) In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <1151EBFEB760994A96A622B835374E0F13849A@PA-ECLUSTER1.vmware.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id j667DOHM008917 On 7/5/05, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, David Masterson 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? > > Good question. No, it doesn't. As should be described in the User's > Guide[1], the 'tty' setting in $CYGWIN serves only to compensate for the > deficiencies of the Windows console terminal handling (Ctrl-C and NUL). > If emacs is invoked in any terminal other than the cmd.exe "console" > (e.g., rxvt, or xterm), no special settings are needed. Neither does this > apply to windowed modes of emacs, which do their own keyboard input > handling. > Igor > [1] Huh, I could have sworn I'd added a note about rxvt and CYGWIN=tty once before, but obviously not. It'll be in the next update. -- 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/