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Subject: emacs issues
From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann AT ics DOT uci DOT edu>
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Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 18:39:05 -0700
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Hi!

There are several issues with running Emacs under cygwin. 

One of them is that C-x C-c does not work by default when emacs is run
in the Cygwin terminal. It seems that to solve this CYGWIN needs to
contain "tty", but that does not work by default. 
One way to solve this would be to move the emacs binary to
/usr/libexec and make /usr/bin/emacs a shell script: 

#!/bin/bash
# maybe add a test and do this iff $TERM == cygwin
CYGWIN=tty /usr/bin/libexec/emacs $*
# reset is needed because otherwise the terminal seems to be left
# in a strange state after exiting emacs.
reset

Another issue is that the Cygwin terminal does not really support
"underline". If emacs is trying to use "underline" will change the
foreground color to "cyan". This can be fixed in the CVS versions of
Emacs, I will do it soon.

C-SPC does not work in a Cygwin terminal. Is there a way to fix this?

               --dan

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