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Re: Emacs 21.3.50 problem on XP


Larry Hall  wrote:

>At 05:44 PM 6/29/2005, you wrote:
>>Okay.  Setting CYGWIN=tty did not work as expected.  
>
>
>So you started a command prompt without any Cygwin shell running in it, 
>set CYGWIN="tty" and then started bash?

No - I set it in my .bash_profile and exported it, then started Cygwin using the shortcut created by the install.

>Maybe I missed it but I don't recall Igor pointing you to a readme.  You
>can certainly look at the User's Guide:
>
><http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html>

Thanks. Igor mentioned the emacs readme in this posting: 
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-06/msg01106.html

>>... I've included the output from cygcheck -svr below. 
>
>Actually, we prefer (and ask for it) *attached*, not included/inlined.
>

Apologies - I got the "not" on the wrong part.

Result: setting CYGWIN=tty in a Win Cmd32 shell and running bash/Cygwin 
works properly.  Is the indication, then, that I should set this as a Win 
environment variable instead of it being in my .bash_profile?


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