Re: I can't exit emacs :-/

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Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:
> + casioculture@gmail.com:
>
> | When I try to exit emacs (C-x C-c) that I had started in the cygwin
> | shell (no gui) I can't. I see the C-x come up but when I enter C-c it
> | just beeps, but doesn't exit. When I start xemacs instead it does
> | start, and when it enter C-x C-c it does exit as expected.
> |
> | Any ideas what the problem may be?
>
> I'm no windows user, but my guess is that the C-c is trapped by the
> terminal/shell window which then sends a signal to emacs as a result.
> (This is all unix terminology I'm using here, not sure how well it
> maps to the windows setting.)
>
> Use M-x save-windows-kill-emacs to get out.  This is the command run
> by C-x C-c (when it works).
>

Hi, thanks, that didn't work. Any ideas? I tried uninstalling all
editors from cygwin and reinstalling emacs but that didn't work.


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> * Harald Hanche-Olsen     <URL:http://www.math.ntnu.no/~hanche/>
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