From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: casioculture@gmail.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: I can't exit emacs :-/ Date: 26 Nov 2005 17:06:45 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1133053605.410367.308300@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> References: <1132954709.777213.40660@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1133053877 9017 80.91.229.2 (27 Nov 2005 01:11:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 01:11:17 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 27 02:11:15 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EgB47-0006J7-2W for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Nov 2005 02:10:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EgB46-0008L0-9V for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 20:10:50 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 30 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 172.203.142.7 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1133053610 25290 127.0.0.1 (27 Nov 2005 01:06:50 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 01:06:50 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/0.2 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=172.203.142.7; posting-account=lrdvUQ0AAADic57Cqct60XFoZfsjWYRF Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:135787 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:31389 Archived-At: 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. > -- > * Harald Hanche-Olsen > - Debating gives most of us much more psychological satisfaction > than thinking does: but it deprives us of whatever chance there is > of getting closer to the truth. -- C.P. Snow