Cygwin emacs manual entries

Jack Radigan jprad@fastmail.fm
Wed Feb 13 04:33:00 GMT 2013


On 02/12/2013 07:28 AM, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 2/11/2013 11:03 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote:
>> On 11/02/2013 10:47 PM, Jack Radigan wrote:
>>> I've just installed 1.7.17 (twice, to confirm it installed properly)
>>> on a Win7 Ultimate box.
>>>
>>> When I invoke a manual entry, M-x man, for any man page I'm getting
>>> Ctrl-M characters in the output.
>>>
>>> I've tried this from the minterm console, Xterm, and Emacs-x11 (not
>>> XEmacs) and all have the same result.
>>>
>>> Tried this without a .emacs file, same thing.
>> Huh. WJFFM on the 20121222 snapshot and emacs 24.2.1 in mintty... not
>> sure what to tell you. It seems unlikely that the snapshot really
>> matters in this case.
>
> I can't reproduce it either.  Jack, there must be something in your 
> setup that's causing this to happen.  Check your shell initialization 
> scripts, mounts, environment variables, etc.

Ken, thanks for the prod.

Really odd that commenting out 'stty sane' from .bashrc would fix it.

That .bashrc and the rest of my files we copied from a WinXP machine I'm 
retiring that was running Cygwin 1.5.25 & emacs 21.2.1, no Ctrl-M's there.



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