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 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Levent Yilmaz Subject: Re: xemacs shell problem Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 19:47:35 -0400 Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: <40A65758 DOT 7040609 AT acm DOT org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet AT sea DOT gmane DOT org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pick.me.pitt.edu User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 MultiZilla/1.6.3.1d In-Reply-To: <40A65758.7040609@acm.org> Dave, As a beginner Xemacs-user with hardly any understanding of lisp (yet) I have to make sure that I understand it correctly. You suggest that I should, - Type "M-x eval-expression" - Type "(setq process-connection-type nil) [return]" - Observe that Minibuffer displays: "nil" - Type "M-x shell" - Execute the (darn) console program Unfortunately the problem remains. :-( - Levent David Rothenberger wrote: > Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > >> Cygwin uses special pipes, called "pty"s, for applications that aren't >> running in a console. I'm guessing that XEmacs uses these ptys for its >> shell buffer. > > > It does by default, but this behavior can be changed by executing > > (setq process-connection-type nil) > > before starting the shell mode. This will cause the shell mode to use > pipes instead of ptys. > > Levent, you may want to try that and see if it changes anything. > > Dave > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/