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Killing Cygwin Emacs

This has been bothering me for a long time. According to an old post, Ctrl-C can’t be properly mapped in the normal Cygwin console running under Windows; so Ctrl-X-Ctrl-C-ing out of Emacs under Cygwin is not an option.

Alternatives are as follows:

  • Set the environmental variable CYGWIN=tty. (This may disable echo back to the local terminal when you exit Emacs.)
  • Run emacs under rxvt or X.
  • Use M-x kill-emacs. (I wish I had know about this years ago.)

Die, emacs. Die.

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4 Responses to “Killing Cygwin Emacs”

  1. Open Source News » Blog Archive » Killing Cygwin Emacs Says:
    December 1st, 2007 at 9:18 pm

    [...] Killing Cygwin EmacsBy nurikabeAccording to this old post, Ctrl-C can’t be properly mapped in the normal Cygwin console running under Windows; Ctrl-X-Ctrl-C-ing out of Emacs under Cygwin is not an option. Alternatives are as follows:. Set the environmental variable …blog.arithm – http://blog.arithm.com [...]

  2. Chris Says:
    December 2nd, 2007 at 11:25 am

    But why would you want to leave emacs?

  3. nurikabe Says:
    December 2nd, 2007 at 1:49 pm

    Clearly I need to spend more time with M-x doctor.

  4. Jacob Says:
    October 11th, 2009 at 11:50 am

    Hm, I just use Ctrl-Z to stop the process then kill -9 with the process ID to kill it.

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