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Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 23:25:54 +0200
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From: "Ehud Karni" <ehud AT unix DOT simonwiesel DOT co DOT il>
To: cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com
Subject: Re: NTEmacs shell/CygWin: should control-C work?
In-reply-to: <3A5F5F1C.3879B2CF@digitalfocus.com> (message from Daniel Barclay
	on Fri, 12 Jan 2001 14:46:36 -0500)
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On Fri, 12 Jan 2001 14:46:36 -0500, Daniel Barclay <Daniel DOT Barclay AT digitalfocus DOT com> wrote:
> 
> "David M. Karr" wrote:
> > 
> >   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.
> ...
> > This bites me several times a day.  It is a known problem...
> 
> Do you mean it's a known problem that crops up (for some people), or that
> it simply doesn't work at all (for anyone combining Emacs and CygWin)?

I think he meant it is a general problem for everyone. The base of this
is that the emacs shell buffer is not a tty. You can check it by doing
`stty', you'll get: "stty: standard input: Not a character device".

And hence, it is not a tty ==> it will not generate SIGINT for ^C.

Ehud.


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