Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 23:25:54 +0200 Message-Id: <200101122125.XAA16707@linux.> From: "Ehud Karni" To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: NTEmacs shell/CygWin: should control-C work? In-reply-to: <3A5F5F1C.3879B2CF@digitalfocus.com> (message from Daniel Barclay on Fri, 12 Jan 2001 14:46:36 -0500) Organization: Simon & Wiesel Insurance agency Reply-to: ehud@unix.simonwiesel.co.il References: <3A5E32A6.557FEAE7@digitalfocus.com> <3A5F5F1C.3879B2CF@digitalfocus.com> X-Mailer: Emacs 20.7.1 rmail (send-msg 1.104) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Fri, 12 Jan 2001 14:46:36 -0500, Daniel Barclay wrote: > > "David M. Karr" wrote: > > > > Daniel> In a shell buffer in NTEmacs configured per the shell-setup instructions > > Daniel> in the CygWin FAQ at http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/faq/faq.html#SEC5, > > Daniel> control-C doesn't seem to work. > ... > > This bites me several times a day. It is a known problem... > > Do you mean it's a known problem that crops up (for some people), or that > it simply doesn't work at all (for anyone combining Emacs and CygWin)? I think he meant it is a general problem for everyone. The base of this is that the emacs shell buffer is not a tty. You can check it by doing `stty', you'll get: "stty: standard input: Not a character device". And hence, it is not a tty ==> it will not generate SIGINT for ^C. Ehud. -- @@@@@@ @@@ @@@@@@ @ @ Ehud Karni Simon & Wiesel Insurance agency @ @ @ @@ @ Tel: +972-3-6212-757 Fax: +972-3-6292-544 @ @ @ @ @ @@ (USA) Fax and voice mail: 1-815-5509341 @ @ @ @ @ @ Better Safe Than Sorry http://www.simonwiesel.co.il mailto:ehud@unix.simonwiesel.co.il -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple