Re: Emacs and removal of CYGWIN=tty

[lars@lamasti.net (Lars Bjørndal)]

Corinna Vinschen writes:

> On Jun 30 13:54, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>> Ken Brown, le Thu 30 Jun 2011 07:49:42 -0400, a écrit :
>> > On 6/30/2011 3:58 AM, Lars Bjørndal wrote:
>> > >I've heard that the value of the CYGWIN environment variable 'tty' will
>> > >be unsupported for the next release of cygwin. I use emacs a lot from within
>> > >cygwin, and if not CYTWIN=tty is set prior to starting bash, the control-c
>> > >character outputs control-g. C-c, c-x is therefore wrongly interpreted
>> > >by emacs. Is there other ways to get emacs works as expected, if the
>> > >variable is removed?
>> > 
>> > The problem only occurs in a Windows console, such as the one you get by
>> > using the Cygwin desktop shortcut.  Use a different terminal emulator, such
>> > as mintty, instead.
>> 
>> This is not an option, as mintty is not accessible from brltty.
>
> I just applied a patch to CVS which makes Emacs' Ctrl-x Ctrl-c work as
> expected in the console.  This should work with other applications as
> well which set the termios IGNBRK flag.

I downloaded the 20110705 version of cygwin1.dll, and replaced my
original one. Now, BRLTTY doesn't work. It starts, but the braille
display isn't updated/refreshed. I confirmed that Emacs exits with c-x,
c-c.

Lars

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