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RE: How to run GNU Emacs from Windows icon
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf
> Of Ken Brown
> Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 11:37 AM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: How to run GNU Emacs from Windows icon
>
> 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
Ok, I've installed Emacs 23. The results are sort of better, but worse.
Running it now, which actually runs "emacs-X11" through a link, looks like
"emacs -nw". It's definitely not using X11. If I run it from a Bash prompt
in rxvt, it comes up fine (with the minor annoyance that setting the
frame-position at 0,0 doesn't mean the same thing as it did before), and the
fonts are definitely nicer. :)
>
> Ken
>
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