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Re: NTEmacs shell/CygWin: should control-C work?
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- Subject: Re: NTEmacs shell/CygWin: should control-C work?
- From: dkarr at tcsi dot com (David M. Karr)
- Date: 11 Jan 2001 14:58:06 -0800
- References: <3A5E32A6.557FEAE7@digitalfocus.com>
>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Barclay <Daniel.Barclay@digitalfocus.com> writes:
Daniel> If I've missed this in the FAQ, user's manual, or (poorly searchable)
Daniel> archives, please point me to what I've missed.
Daniel> In a shell buffer in NTEmacs configured per the shell-setup instructions
Daniel> in the CygWin FAQ at http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/faq/faq.html#SEC5,
Daniel> control-C doesn't seem to work.
Daniel> That is, typing two control-C's in Emacs (to send a control-C to bash)
Daniel> doesn't kill a long-running command (e.g., like "du /" or "sleep 10").
Daniel> Emacs does seem to flash the window title bar, but I can't tell what it's
Daniel> trying to indicate. Does this seem to be an NTEmacs/CygWin interaction
Daniel> problem, or just an NTEmacs problem (not for the CygWin list)?
Daniel> Is control-C still supported in CygWin and between NTEmacs and CygWin? (I
Daniel> just upgraded from CygWin B20 (or so), and not yet used to how things work
Daniel> now.)
This bites me several times a day. It is a known problem, but I don't
know what the status on a fix is. I will be very glad to see it.
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