Re: Newbie, Emacs won't quit

[Matthew Huggett]

   From: "YL" <elim.qiu@gmail.com>
   
>   > I figured it out by accident.  In trying to get sshd working under
>   > cygwin (which I haven't done yet) I set the environment variable
>   >
>   > CYGWIN=binmode ntsec tty
>   >
>   > This fixes this problem for me, and I believe it is the tty portion
>   of
>   > that environment variable that is the key one to changing the
>   > behaviour.
>   >
>   > ~>Bill
>
>   It worked for me. Thanks. But after exit emacs and back to cygwin
>   shell,
>   any command typed won't shown (they still work though). Also, I don't
>   know where and how to put 'CYGWIN=binmode ntsec tty' so that emacs can
>   work correctly without set this environment everytime.


It goes in your cygwin.bat file in the root of your cygwin
installation.

It should look something like:

  @echo off
  set CYGWIN=binmode tty ntsec
  C:
  chdir \cygwin\bin

  bash --login -i


Reference: http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/~kscully/SSH/CygwinSSHD_W2K3.html

Matt