Re: control-spacebar

2004-01-11 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 01:01:17PM -0500, Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now, if only I could get Windows to tell me exactly where the bug is > occurring that would be wonderful. Have you tried using SAPI? You would have to find the bug first, of course, but then having windows t

Re: control-spacebar

2004-01-09 Thread Larry Hall
At 01:01 PM 1/9/2004, Christopher Faylor you wrote: >On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 11:50:03AM -0500, Larry Hall wrote: >>So when you write some code that will cause a "bug", please do so in >>such a way that it will always segv. > >As it turns out, the problems that people are having with Windows ME in >

Re: control-spacebar

2004-01-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 11:50:03AM -0500, Larry Hall wrote: >So when you write some code that will cause a "bug", please do so in >such a way that it will always segv. As it turns out, the problems that people are having with Windows ME in recent cygwin snapshots are really SEGV problems, so I've

Re: control-spacebar

2004-01-09 Thread Larry Hall
At 12:33 AM 1/9/2004, Christopher Faylor you wrote: >On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 05:33:23PM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote: >>"H. James de St. Germain" wrote: >>>at the time... Its curious that it works in either place and even more >>>curious that placing it after cygwin starts causes programs like rxvt

Re: control-spacebar

2004-01-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 05:33:23PM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote: >"H. James de St. Germain" wrote: >>at the time... Its curious that it works in either place and even more >>curious that placing it after cygwin starts causes programs like rxvt >>to core dump. > >Why should that be curious? As Chris

Re: control-spacebar

2004-01-08 Thread Brian Dessent
"H. James de St. Germain" wrote: > at the time... Its curious that it works in either place and even more > curious that placing it after cygwin starts causes programs like rxvt > to core dump. Why should that be curious? As Chris pointed out it has to be set before cygwin1.dll initializes. If

Re: control-spacebar

2004-01-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 03:35:08PM -0700, H. James de St. Germain wrote: >several people have responded that the CYGWIN environment variable >should be set in the cygwin.bat file, but for whatever reason, I put it >in the shell resource file and that fixed the problems i was having at >the time...

Re: control-spacebar

2004-01-08 Thread H. James de St. Germain
several people have responded that the CYGWIN environment variable should be set in the cygwin.bat file, but for whatever reason, I put it in the shell resource file and that fixed the problems i was having at the time... Its curious that it works in either place and even more curious that placing

Re: control-spacebar

2004-01-08 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Larry Hall wrote: > At 05:03 PM 1/8/2004, H. James de St. Germain you wrote: > >(But doesn't everyone just work in emacs anyway?) > > No, if I'm one of "everyone". Hey, I personally use vi(m). But I do know people who'd like to boot up emacs as their OS. :-) > >Then when you

Re: control-spacebar

2004-01-08 Thread Larry Hall
At 05:03 PM 1/8/2004, H. James de St. Germain you wrote: >(But doesn't everyone just work in emacs anyway?) No, if I'm one of "everyone". >Then when you start cygwin, it pops up an rxvt terminal for you. > >NOTE: in the past I have had > > setenv CYGWIN "tty" > >in my resource file (.tcshrc)

Re: control-spacebar

2004-01-08 Thread H. James de St. Germain
To follow up on using rxvt: I have changed by cygwin.bat to have rxvt -e tcsh -l as the final line. (Yes I (currently) like some of the old tcsh properties over bash (though I've used both over time)) (But doesn't everyone just work in emacs anyway?) Then when you start cygwin, it pops u

Re: control-spacebar

2004-01-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 04:44:56PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >>i don't have a winsup directory (didn't compile cygwin from src) so >>fixing fhandler_console.cc might be more than i want to attempt. >>strange though, you would think that if it were that easy the >>developers would have already

Re: control-spacebar

2004-01-08 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Jim, Please make sure your mailer respects the Reply-To: header. Also, if advice given by someone on the Cygwin list helped you, it's usually a good idea to post a followup to the list stating this, just to bring things to a closure, so that others searching the archives will see what worked and w

Re: control-spacebar

2004-01-08 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, H. James de St. Germain wrote: > Control spacebar doesn't work in the standard cygwin terminal. This is > a problem for those of us who love emacs... > > From the cryptic posts I've found on the web, it seems that this results > because the "C

control-spacebar

2004-01-08 Thread H. James de St. Germain
Control spacebar doesn't work in the standard cygwin terminal. This is a problem for those of us who love emacs... >From the cryptic posts I've found on the web, it seems that this results because the "C-spacebar" is not a recognized ASCII value and thus is not being &q