Re: An apology...

2003-02-19 Thread Stephen Ford
Danilo You know the saying, "If things can go wrong, they *?!"*:$*! will", well in an infuriating way, they did... You now know now that I've not experienced mailing lists before. So I've never had to filter mails before. That's one part of the story... When I sign up to a newsgroup I automatica

Re: An apology...

2003-02-19 Thread Stephen Ford
Now I've learnt something. I've used Google lots, but not with that type of search. Thanks for the info. I really am trying to appreciate the concepts behind people's ways of working. I'm a mechanical engineer with considerable software development skills in Unix & DEC systems, and with some Windo

Re: An apology...

2003-02-18 Thread Stephen Ford
> My guess would be that people without access to Windows are probably not > interested in Cygwin at all ;-) ! Now that's a lovely bit of locical thinking .. but believe it or not, I'm trying to appreciate other people's ways of working here. Stephen -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.c

Re: An apology...

2003-02-18 Thread Stephen Ford
I tried a search and it found 24,000+ results because it modified "mailing lists" to-; Search results for '(mailing or mail or mailed or mailings or mailer or mails or mailers) and (lists or list or listed or listing or listings or listen or lister or listens or listers) and ' How do I search

Re: An apology...

2003-02-18 Thread Stephen Ford
<<..I use one filter for each cygwin ml that I'm subscribed to and have no > problems with "manage"ing the flow..>> But that's horrendous - the whole internet will be peppered with even more unnecessary emails. I was horrified when my newreader suddenly filled up with every message from the mailin

Re: An apology...

2003-02-18 Thread Stephen Ford
ad very easily with MS Outlook / Outlook Express, and they are bundled with MS Windows, you must be saying that there are people without access to Windows. Stephen Ford -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Docume

An apology...

2003-02-18 Thread Stephen Ford
ng list. This is the fourth attempt at posting. Just out of curiosity, why is a mailing list used when it seems far simpler for users to connect to a newsgroup? Regards Stephen Ford -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bug

Re: I can't exit emacs

2003-02-07 Thread Stephen Ford
David <<..What do you want C-h to do?..>> Info emacs says that it start emacs' help. F1 isn't mentioned - or at least not in the text that I read. Got to admit that F1 never occured to me - add it works too! :-)) Thanks Stephen -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simpl

The Cygwin mailing lists are rather archaic and cumbersome aren't they...?

2003-02-07 Thread Stephen Ford
as a poor support system (and compared with all the others I use, this is poor) can restrict interest. Sorry to be critical, but I was taken a-back. Is it going to be improved by using a newsgroup for example? Regards Stephen Ford -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe

Re: I can't exit emacs

2003-02-07 Thread Stephen Ford
Igor <<..Try "cygcheck -c emacs"..>> Plain old emacs <<..Try searching the cygwin-announce archives..>> Not used to cygwin-speak ... learning! <<..information there about setting 'tty' in your CYGWIN environment variable..>> Put 'set CYGWIN=tty' in cygwin.bat and now C-x C-c exits emacs. The

Re: I can't exit emacs

2003-02-07 Thread Stephen Ford
David <<.. Search on "cygwin" "emacs" "environment". It should point you to http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-01/msg01446.html ..>> Noted. Thanks. <<.. Note2: You need to question whether you really want to run cygwin emacs. NTemacs, Xemacs for Windows, and cygwin Xemacs are all pre

Re: I can't exit emacs

2003-02-07 Thread Stephen Ford
suspect terminal settings but I didn't know where to start looking. I will chase this. However, my PC is bog-std so would not really expect a setup problem. All things possible I suppose... Regards Stephen Ford Surrey, UK -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Setup: A suggestion

2003-02-07 Thread Stephen Ford
ble window - it's far too small. Regards Stephen Ford -- 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/

I can't exit emacs

2003-02-07 Thread Stephen Ford
Some commands work like save-buffer (C-c C-s) Any ideas? Regards Stephen Ford -- 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/