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On 6/30/2011 3:58 AM, Lars Bjørndal wrote:
> I've heard that the value of the CYGWIN environment variable 'tty' will
> be unsupported for the next release of cygwin. I use emacs a lot from within
> cygwin, and if not CYTWIN=tty is set prior to starting bash, the control-c
> character outputs control-g. C-c, c-x is therefore wrongly interpreted
> by emacs. Is there other ways to get emacs works as expected, if the
> variable is removed?

The problem only occurs in a Windows console, such as the one you get by 
using the Cygwin desktop shortcut.  Use a different terminal emulator, 
such as mintty, instead.

Ken

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