From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Cygwin emacs - does it work? Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:25:31 +0200 Message-ID: <489870EB.1030108@gmail.com> References: <48985B66.3090207@gmail.com> <873aljwktl.fsf@offby1.atm01.sea.blarg.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1217950066 8361 80.91.229.12 (5 Aug 2008 15:27:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 15:27:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eric Hanchrow Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 05 17:28:36 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KQOSh-0006ny-IM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:28:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58357 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KQORm-0003Sa-Cz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:27:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KQOQE-0001WW-4J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:26:02 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KQOQC-0001UB-IF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:26:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=41581 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KQOQC-0001Tr-9K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:26:00 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]:59013) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KQOQC-0008Jh-2d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:26:00 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-151-176.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.151.176]:62625 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1KQOQ9-0007K7-9J; Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:25:58 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <873aljwktl.fsf@offby1.atm01.sea.blarg.net> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080805-0, 2008-08-05), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.151.176 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1KQOQ9-0007K7-9J. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1KQOQ9-0007K7-9J abbba629eb3b6dab1e758a89f57475fb X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:102096 Archived-At: Eric Hanchrow wrote: >>>>>> "Lennart" == Lennart Borgman (gmail) writes: > > Lennart> For example typing C-c results in C-g. > > I think you need to set an environment variable before starting Cygwin > -- "set CYGWIN=tty" might do it. That is frustrating too ;-) > In general though, I've found Cygwin emacs to be too frustrating to use; > I instead use the native Win32 emacs, but with lots of Cygwin tools such > as bash, coreutils, and find.