Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Originating-IP: [129.78.64.17] From: "Gareth Pearce" To: rocco DOT corsi AT sympatico DOT ca Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Cygwin version of GNU Nano does not accept CTRL-C Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 03:42:43 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 17 Oct 2002 03:42:43.0982 (UTC) FILETIME=[405412E0:01C2758F] dropped nano-devel since this would be offtopic for there now. > >Perfect, just added "CYGWIN=tty" to the environment variables and all is >fine. Thanks. good > >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? Well thats a little complex... - in win9x/ME - it would have to edit autoexec.bat - win NT/2k/XP - fiddle with the system control panel settings wherever they are stored. And then theres system vs user. The post install script could add a /etc/profile.d/ entry - but the tty variable is supposed to be set before initialising cygwin or else it can do some bizare things that are not so nice. In either case - asking a question in a postinstal script would be against the current trend of usage of postinstall scripts which work without interaction. (and if unattended setup work is to reach completition, they should probably stay that way) Otherwise - it would have to be done by the setup program itself and I suspect that Robert would not be interested in that given that hes trying to make setup purely data-driven. and Not asking a question - is not the go since while for best usage nano and emacs (and others?) need tty. Nano at least is mostly functional without it. And tty is an option for a reason, people have experienced problems with tty On. While I might think that tty should be on by default thus avoiding these problems alltogeather, having never experienced tty related problems. I dont use a very broad range of cygwin related things and so am probably not representitive of the broader cygwin communitiy. However I didnt expect ntsec to have become the default so soon - maybe tty will change despite my expectations to the contrary. Gareth _________________________________________________________________ Get faster connections -- switch to MSN Internet Access! http://resourcecenter.msn.com/access/plans/default.asp -- 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/