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. -- 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/