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Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 15:26:11 -0500
To: dkarr AT tcsi DOT com (David M. Karr), cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: NTEmacs shell/CygWin: should control-C work?
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References: <Daniel Barclay's message of "Fri, 12 Jan 2001 14:46:36 -0500">
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At 02:51 PM 1/12/2001, David M. Karr wrote:
> >>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Barclay <Daniel DOT Barclay AT digitalfocus DOT com> writes:
>   Daniel> "David M. Karr" wrote:
>   >> 
>   >> >>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Barclay <Daniel DOT Barclay AT digitalfocus DOT com> writes:
>   >> 
>   ...> 
>   Daniel> In a shell buffer in NTEmacs configured per the shell-setup instructions
>   Daniel> in the CygWin FAQ at http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/faq/faq.html#SEC5,
>   Daniel> control-C doesn't seem to work.
>   Daniel> ...
>   >> This bites me several times a day.  It is a known problem...
>
>   Daniel> Do you mean it's a known problem that crops up (for some people), or that
>   Daniel> it simply doesn't work at all (for anyone combining Emacs and CygWin)?
>
>I don't know the full answer to that.  For me, certain shell processes
>will die with ^C, some will not.  I can kill "java", but I can't kill
>"tail -f" or "perl" (I have to use Task Manager).  I have seen other
>people report this.



Recently?  Daniel's was the first report of this I've heard in months at
least (longer than that most likely but I tend to be conservative when it
comes to my memory).  I might be wrong but I don't think this is a known
problem and its certainly something that I don't see.



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