Re: How to run GNU Emacs from Windows icon

[Ken Brown <kbrown at cornell dot edu>]

On 6/5/2009 11:58 AM, David Karr wrote:
> > > > 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.

I have a few other suggestions if you want to keep trying to track this 
down:

1. Send cygcheck output (as an attachment) as requested at 
http://cygwin.com/problems.html

2. Try emacs -q to make sure there's nothing in your initialization 
file(s) causing the problem.

3. Try emacs 23:

  http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2009-05/msg00475.html
  http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2009-05/msg00635.html

Ken

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