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Re: Exiting Emacs (Attn: emacs maintainer)


On Sat, 2 Jul 2005, Nick Kirchner wrote:

> I just installed Cygwin on my Windows 98 computer and tried playing
> around with Emacs. Having toyed with it a little in the past, I know
> that C-x C-c is supposed to exit the program. As you may have guessed,
> C-x C-c did nothing other than beep.
>
> What exactly is going wrong here?

As mentioned in the announcement
(<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2004-04/msg00000.html>), you need
to have "tty" in your CYGWIN environment variable.  This needs to be set
*before* the shell is started, so good places would be /Cygwin.bat or the
system environment (i.e., don't do this in shell startup files).

This should really be in the Cygwin-specific emacs README -- Joe, are you
reading this?  Barring that, this may be good FAQ fodder.
	Igor
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