Re: emacs installed but won't run

2009-09-15 Thread Ken Brown
On 9/15/2009 12:24 AM, Charles Blair wrote: (1) Although "info emacs" works, C-h does not provide any help This has been fixed in cygwin 1.7. If you want to stick with cygwin 1.5, try the F1 function key for help whenever C-h doesn't work. Or run emacs under X. (2) C-x C-c does not exit

Re: emacs installed but won't run

2009-09-14 Thread Charles Blair
Thank you for your help. "cygcheck emacs" produced the output below. After I used setup to install the "lib" and "X11" packages, I am happy to report I have a working emacs. However, (1) Although "info emacs" works, C-h does not provide any help options (2) C-x C-c does not exit emacs, alt

Re: emacs installed but won't run

2009-09-13 Thread René Berber
Charles Blair wrote: >When I type "emacs", I get a new command prompt, with no other > messages. That's expected when a library is missing, you can make sure by running "emacs; echo $?" and getting error 53. More interesting is knowing which library is missing, run "cygcheck emacs". Install