Re: I can't exit emacs :-/

[John Paul Wallington]

casioculture@gmail.com writes:

> Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:
[...]
>> I'm no windows user, but my guess is that the C-c is trapped by the
>> terminal/shell window which then sends a signal to emacs as a result.
>> (This is all unix terminology I'm using here, not sure how well it
>> maps to the windows setting.)
>>
>> Use M-x save-windows-kill-emacs to get out.  This is the command run
>> by C-x C-c (when it works).
>>
>
> Hi, thanks, that didn't work. Any ideas? I tried uninstalling all
> editors from cygwin and reinstalling emacs but that didn't work.

Try M-x save-buffers-kill-emacs

Does C-h k C-x C-c say "C-x C-g is undefined" or similar ?
Try setting your CYGWIN environment variable to "tty".