Re: Exiting Emacs (Attn: User's Guide maintainer)

2005-07-06 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin 
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/msg0.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.

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RE: Exiting Emacs (Attn: User's Guide maintainer)

2005-07-05 Thread Igor Pechtchanski 
On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, David Masterson wrote:

 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR.  Thanks.

  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/msg0.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
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