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emacs -nw (Was: empty zsh prompt string under Cygwin 1.1.0 xterm)
- To: Eric De Mund <ead at ixian dot com>
- Subject: emacs -nw (Was: empty zsh prompt string under Cygwin 1.1.0 xterm)
- From: David Starks-Browning <starksb at ebi dot ac dot uk>
- Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 21:37:01 +0100
- CC: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
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On Wednesday 5 Jul 00, Eric De Mund writes:
> ...
>
> All I need figure out now is how to get "emacs -nw" under the xterm(1)
> to stop saying "emacs: standard input is not a tty" and then exiting. I
> wonder if I need to build emacs from source and not use a precompiled
> version; it's the last program in the equation now that is not built
> using cygwin.
Unfortunately, you cannot. Gnu Emacs ('nt-emacs') is not ported to
Cygwin.
You should be able to build xemacs using Cygwin, and then 'xemacs -nw'
will work.
(Should this go into the FAQ?)
Regards,
David
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