David Karr wrote:
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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.
And why do you require a "normal login shell"? Here's what I have for my
shortcut that starts up XEmacs: "C:\Cygwin\bin\run.exe xemacs". Nothing
else is required. I don't need to "login". I'm logged in already. I just
need to edit files...
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.
You have not defined what exactly your "symptom" is WRT xemacs. You stated:
"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
"
Then went on to describe how it fails with emacs (not xemacs) because
emacs and a problem with your terminal type. I would think that xemacs
doesn't care as much about terminal type. Is xemacs failing with the
same error about terminal type? What is TERM set to for you? (Me: it's
set to cygwin).
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Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com>
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