Re: Signals ignored in shell-mode gnu emacs cygwin

["Edwin Goei" <edwingo@gmail.com>]

On Apr 14, 4:39 am, Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> wrote:
> > From: "Edwin Goei" <edwi...@gmail.com>
> > Date: 14 Apr 2007 00:15:42 -0700
> > Cc: e...@edwingo.org
>
> > I just switched from xemacs to gnu emacs 21.3.50.1on cygwin
> > 1.5.24(0.156/4/2) with an X server (the latest versions I can find). I
> > have shell-mode working, except that signals sent to the subprocess
> > are ignored. For example, if I want to cancel or stop a process, I
> > should be able to type C-c C-c or C-c C-z to interrupt or stop it. The
> > "Signals" menu items are also ignored. Any ideas? This worked fine in
> > xemacs.
>
> When was that binary built?  Emacs is currently in pretest, pending
> the (hopefully close) release of v22.1, and the current versions are
> numbered 22.0.NN, not 21.3.NN.  What does "M-x emacs-version RET"
> display?

"GNU Emacs 21.3.50.1 (i686-pc-cygwin, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2004-03-30 on cm-test"

It was the latest pre-compiled version I could find. See
http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=emacs.

>
> If this is a sufficiently old binary, you may be better off trying the
> latest pretest version of Emacs 22 at this URL:
>
>  http://www.webalice.it/angelo.graziosi/Emacs.html
>
> (Thanks to Angelo Graziosi for providing the binary.)  I don't use
> Cygwin myself, so I have no idea whether this version has the problems
> you describe.  But if the problem persists, the Emacs developers will
> try to resolve it.
>
> If you have any problems with the pretest, please report them to
> emacs-de...@gnu.org as soon as you can, because we want to release
> Emacs 22.1 VSN.
>
> TIA

Thanks for the link. I'll give it a try.

-Edwin