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RE: Exiting Emacs (Attn: emacs maintainer)


cygwin-owner@cygwin.com wrote:
> 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). 

Does this apply to using (X)Emacs under X?

David Masterson

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