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Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 00:13:03 -0700
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On 7/5/05, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, David Masterson wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2 Jul 2005, Nick Kirchner wrote:
> > >
> > >> I just installed Cygwin on my Windows 98 computer and tried playing
> > >> around with Emacs. Having toyed with it a little in the past, I know
> > >> that C-x C-c is supposed to exit the program. As you may have
> > >> guessed, C-x C-c did nothing other than beep.
> > >>
> > >> What exactly is going wrong here?
> > >
> > > As mentioned in the announcement
> > > (<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2004-04/msg00000.html>), you
> > > need to have "tty" in your CYGWIN environment variable.  This needs
> > > to be set *before* the shell is started, so good places would be
> > > /Cygwin.bat or the system environment (i.e., don't do this in shell
> > > startup files).
> >
> > Does this apply to using (X)Emacs under X?
> 
> Good question.  No, it doesn't.  As should be described in the User's
> Guide[1], the 'tty' setting in $CYGWIN serves only to compensate for the
> deficiencies of the Windows console terminal handling (Ctrl-C and NUL).
> If emacs is invoked in any terminal other than the cmd.exe "console"
> (e.g., rxvt, or xterm), no special settings are needed.  Neither does this
> apply to windowed modes of emacs, which do their own keyboard input
> handling.
>         Igor
> [1] <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html>


Huh, I could have sworn I'd added a note about rxvt and CYGWIN=tty once 
before, but obviously not. It'll be in the next update.

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