From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26413 invoked by alias); 17 Oct 2002 02:53:06 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 26399 invoked from network); 17 Oct 2002 02:53:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO tomts6-srv.bellnexxia.net) (209.226.175.26) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 17 Oct 2002 02:53:04 -0000 Received: from sympatico.ca ([65.92.187.128]) by tomts6-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.19 201-253-122-122-119-20020516) with ESMTP id <20021017025303.XIGO24390.tomts6-srv.bellnexxia.net@sympatico.ca>; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 22:53:03 -0400 Message-ID: <3DAE271F.8070006@sympatico.ca> Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 21:16:00 -0000 From: Rocco Corsi User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020408 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gareth Pearce CC: nano-devel@gnu.org, cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin version of GNU Nano does not accept CTRL-C References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-10/txt/msg00974.txt.bz2 Gareth Pearce wrote: > > > >> Hello >> >> I don't know if anyone has noticed, but it appears that when >> CTRL-C is pressed in Nano it is not recognized under Cygwin. Is this >> normal behavior under Windows, is the CTRL-C somehow intercepted and >> stripped out? I am using WinXP. > > > As mentioned in the cygwin archives - the CYGWIN enviornment variable > needs to be set to include tty for ctrl-C to work (and some other > things) - See the cygwin users guide for details on the CYGWIN > environment variable. The tty option needs to be set Before you start > cygwin. > > Gareth - cygwin nano maintainer. Perfect, just added "CYGWIN=tty" to the environment variables and all is fine. Thanks. Maybe a dumb question. Why does Cygwin not automatically update environment variables as part of the installation? Or at least ask if they should be updated? Rocco -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/