NTEmacs shell/CygWin: should control-C work?

[Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)]

At 04:25 PM 1/12/2001, Ehud Karni wrote:
>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.



Forgive me for coming late to the party.  I didn't digest that this 
conversation was about NTEmacs (i.e. the Windows port).  I'll leave 
aside whether or not ^C should work in this context.  I really don't
know whether it should/would/ever did.  I don't use Emacs.  However, 
I can say you'll have better luck with a Cygwin version of Emacs, like
XEmacs.  You'll find Cygwin applications work much better with other 
Cygwin applications, especially in areas of detail like this.

YMMV.  Void where prohibited.



Larry Hall                              lhall@rfk.com
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