Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Message-ID: <3DAE271F.8070006@sympatico.ca>
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 22:57:35 -0400
From: Rocco Corsi <rocco DOT corsi AT sympatico DOT ca>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020408
X-Accept-Language: en-us, en
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: Gareth Pearce <tilps AT hotmail DOT com>
CC: nano-devel AT gnu DOT org, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Cygwin version of GNU Nano does not accept CTRL-C
References: <F235QYx3G5aYY61LEdy0000121a AT hotmail DOT com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Gareth Pearce wrote:

>
>
>
>> Hello
>>
>>    I don't know if anyone has noticed, but it appears that when 
>> CTRL-C is pressed in Nano it is not recognized under Cygwin.  Is this 
>> normal behavior under Windows, is the CTRL-C somehow intercepted and 
>> stripped out?  I am using WinXP.
>
>
> As mentioned in the cygwin archives - the CYGWIN enviornment variable 
> needs to be set to include tty for ctrl-C to work (and some other 
> things) - See the cygwin users guide for details on the CYGWIN 
> environment variable.  The tty option needs to be set Before you start 
> cygwin.
>
> Gareth - cygwin nano maintainer.

Perfect, just added "CYGWIN=tty" to the environment variables and all is 
fine.  Thanks.

Maybe a dumb question.  Why does Cygwin not automatically update 
environment variables as part of the installation?  Or at least ask if 
they should be updated?

Rocco


--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Bug reporting:         http://cygwin.com/bugs.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/