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 Reply-To: Cygwin List Message-Id: <6.2.1.2.0.20050629202327.03cf4180@pop.prospeed.net> Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 20:26:10 -0400 To: Dharanyava AT netscape DOT net, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com (Cygwin List) From: Larry Hall Subject: Re: Emacs 21.3.50 problem on XP In-Reply-To: <45646FD3.468698C1.0AEB362B@netscape.net> References: <45646FD3 DOT 468698C1 DOT 0AEB362B AT netscape DOT net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 08:15 PM 6/29/2005, you wrote: >Larry Hall wrote: > >>At 05:44 PM 6/29/2005, you wrote: >>>Okay. Setting CYGWIN=tty did not work as expected. >> >> >>So you started a command prompt without any Cygwin shell running in it, >>set CYGWIN="tty" and then started bash? > >No - I set it in my .bash_profile and exported it, then started Cygwin using the shortcut created by the install. OK, that's the problem then. >>Maybe I missed it but I don't recall Igor pointing you to a readme. You >>can certainly look at the User's Guide: >> >> > >Thanks. Igor mentioned the emacs readme in this posting: >http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-06/msg01106.html OK yes, I just missed that then. I was looking for an actual pointer/path/ filename so my skim missed it. >>>... I've included the output from cygcheck -svr below. >> >>Actually, we prefer (and ask for it) *attached*, not included/inlined. >> > >Apologies - I got the "not" on the wrong part. Yeah, you have lots of company. ;-) >Result: setting CYGWIN=tty in a Win Cmd32 shell and running bash/Cygwin >works properly. Is the indication, then, that I should set this as a Win >environment variable instead of it being in my .bash_profile? Right. That's the easiest thing to do to make sure it's set properly for all shells you might launch from anywhere. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/