[Fwd: Re: Unix utilities for Emacs on MS Windows]

[Fwd: Re: Unix utilities for Emacs on MS Windows]

[Lennart Borgman]

I do not understand this problem on w32, but maybe someone else does?


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Subject: 	Re: Unix utilities for Emacs on MS Windows
Date: 	Wed, 23 Nov 2005 22:21:05 +0100
From: 	Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
To: 	Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
CC: 	Guy Gascoigne-Piggford <guy@wyrdrune.com>, help-emacs-windows 
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Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se> writes:

>> As an aside, the realy stumbling block that I have with cygwin is
>> that it's pty handling screws with the way that Java,  a the Java
>> Service Wrapper and stdout interact.  Basically the combination
>> works just fun under MKS sh and cmd.exe and doesn't under cygwin.
>> Very frustrating.
>
> Can you please explain more in detail what does not work? Could you give 
> examples?

Running OpenSSH from an Emacs shell buffer doesn't work when you are
with Cygwin. See http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.windows/2564

Best regards, Michael.

Re: [Fwd: Re: Unix utilities for Emacs on MS Windows]

[Jason Rumney]

Lennart Borgman wrote:

> I do not understand this problem on w32, but maybe someone else does?

It's a Cygwin bug. Cygwin ssh (and other Cygwin programs that require 
screen based output) assume that the parent process implements terminal 
i/o using the Cygwin tty emulation.

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>
> -------- Original Message --------
>
> Running OpenSSH from an Emacs shell buffer doesn't work when you are
> with Cygwin. See http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.windows/2564