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Subject: Re: Can't start a cygwin terminal(mintty) as admin
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From: Thomas Wolff <towo@towo.net>
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Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2020 05:28:51 +0100
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Am 28.11.2020 um 04:13 schrieb Kevin Schnitzius:
> On Wednesday, November 25, 2020, 03:44:30 AM EST, Thomas Wolff 
> <towo@towo.net> wrote:
>
> >> D:\cygwin64\bin\mintty.exe -o "KeyFunctions=C+c:break" -
> >> Ctrl-c is a break that works on Cygwin processes only.
>
> > That configuration would assign the break function to Shift+Ctrl+c, not 
> just Ctrl+c, so with Ctrl+c you still just
> > send a ^C character while in the other case mintty would invoke a BRK 
> signal. So try Shift+Ctrl+c.
>
> Oops, it's been a while since I looked into it.
>
> D:\cygwin64\bin\mintty.exe -o "KeyFunctions=C+c:break"
> Shift+Ctrl+c does not produce a break for Cygwin or non-Cygwin processes
>
Works for me. Your child process may have disabled the SIGINT signal.
> mintty -o "KeyFunctions=c:break" -o CtrlExchangeShift=true
> Actually, this restores the old behavior of Ctrl+c actually doing a 
> break for Cygwin and non-Cygwin processes.
>
> Kevin
>
>

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