> -----Original Message----- > From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf > Of Andrew DeFaria > Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 8:47 AM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: How to run GNU Emacs from Windows icon > > David Karr wrote: > > I now need to set up Windows desktop icons that can start these > > processes. I managed to get XEmacs working, with the following command > > line: > > > > C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --login -c C:/cygwin/bin/xemacs-21.4.22.exe > Why the insistence on running bash? Why not simply run Xemacs? That's > what I do at work and it works fine for me.
It may not produce any difficult symptoms with XEmacs itself, but without that I don't get a normal login shell out of the box. > > However, when I try to do something similar for GNU Emacs, it fails > > immediately. When I tried running the analogous command from the DOS > > prompt, I got this: > > > > ----------------- > >> C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --login -c "C:/cygwin/bin/emacs.exe" > > emacs: Terminal type cygwin is not defined. > > If that is not the actual type of terminal you have, > > use the Bourne shell command `TERM=... export TERM' (C-shell: > > `setenv TERM ...') to specify the correct type. It may be necessary > > to do `unset TERMINFO' (C-shell: `unsetenv TERMINFO') as well. > Again, why run bash first then run emacs? Again, so I get a login shell. In any case, this has no effect on the symptom. I tried doing this without bash, and it fails in exactly the same way. Thanks. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
