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/
