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Re: NTEmacs shell/CygWin: should control-C work?
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001 14:46:36 -0500, Daniel Barclay <Daniel.Barclay@digitalfocus.com> 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.
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