OK someone sent me a FAQ which did do the trick. In the cygwin.bat file in C:\cygwin I entered this before the call to the bash shell:
Set CYGWIN=tty notitle glob Are there any gotchas here? tty seems amenable enough as does notitle. But the one that has me worried is glob. I don't want my cygwin globbing anything into "Not Working" if I can help it. Thanks. George Hester __________________________________ "Christopher Faylor" <> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 10:46:47PM -0500, George Hester wrote: > >I go into emacs easy enough. I start cygwin and type emacs and there I > >am in emacs. The directions say to exit type C-x C-c where C is the > >control key. I am assuming that is the left control key. So I hold > >down the left control key and type x. I get a C-x in the lower bottom > >of the window. I then try C-c which is holding down the left control > >key and hitting the c key. Nothing. Justy a ding. In fact I casnnot > >exit from emacs at all. Does anyone have a way of exiting from emacs > >which works? Thanks. > > Either set the environment variable CYGWIN=tty prior to running any > cygwin program or run emacs under rxvt. CTRL-C is not remappable in > the normal cygwin console due to windows constraints. > -- > Please use the resources at cygwin.com rather than sending personal email. > Special for spam email harvesters: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > and be permanently blocked from mailing lists at sources.redhat.com > -- 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/