On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 3:51 PM David Karr via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 2:17 PM David Karr <> wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 9:38 AM Ken Brown via Cygwin <> wrote: > > > >> On 3/18/2020 11:22 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: > >> > Greetings, David Karr! > >> > > >> >> Thanks, that worked. For now, I guess I have to figure out how to > set > >> that > >> >> property permanently, or until this pty bug is fixed.. I start Emacs > >> from a > >> >> shortcut, executing "emacs.xml". I see the file appears to have some > >> >> syntax for setting the environment, but I've never inspected that > file > >> >> before. > >> > > >> > You set it in Windows. > >> > >> Not necessarily. He might just want to set it for emacs. Editing > >> emacs.xml is > >> a fine way to do it. > >> > > > > I have no idea whether I would want to do it only for Emacs, as I don't > > know what the issue is. > > > > However, if I wanted to, could you point me to the documentation for > > changing that file? The README doesn't say anything about this. > > > > > Just so it's clear, Ken Brown directly sent me some information of what he > knew about the emacs.xml documentation, but it didn't appear to work. > > I've verified that setting the CYGWIN variable globally to "disable_pcon" > has resolved the problem. > This is what I did as well to address the problem of M-x gdb not working in emacs in a new Cygwin installation. I don't know what I might be losing in other functionality by setting the CYGWIN environment variable globally to "disable_pcon", but it did address my gdb issue effectively. -- William M. (Mike) Miller | Edison Design Group william.m.mil...@gmail.com -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
