Re: looking for what is hopefully a simple answer for someone trying to use EMACS in cygwin

["Elfyn McBratney" <elfyn-cygwin at exposure dot org dot uk>]

> Why would exceed cause this problem?  I have the problem even when I don't
> run exceed on this computer.  I am also almost certain that this did not
> work when I tried it on a computer that did not have exceed on it at all.
>

Are you trying to run plain-old emacs from a cygwin prompt and it keeps
telling you about the X thing? If so just run `emacs -nw'. If not, then
Sorry! :-)


Regards,

Elfyn McBratney
elfyn@exposure.org.uk
www.exposure.org.uk

> Is there anything else that could be wrong?
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com [mailto:lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 1:41 PM
> To: samir.gupta@barra.com; cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: RE: looking for what is hopefully a simple answer for someone
> trying to use EMACS in cygwin
>
>
> Sounds like a problem with Exceed to me then.
>
> Larry
>
> Original Message:
> -----------------
> From: Samir Gupta samir.gupta@Barra.COM
> Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 12:32:18 -0800
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: RE: looking for what is hopefully a simple answer for someone
> trying to use EMACS in cygwin
>
>
> That does not work for some reason, here is what happens when I open up a
> tcsh shell (without my .tcshrc):
>
> [sgupta@sguptaxxxx /cygdrive/c]$ echo $DISPLAY
> :0
> [sgupta@sguptaxxxx /cygdrive/c]$ emacs
> emacs: Cannot connect to X server :0.
> Check the DISPLAY environment variable or use `-d'.
> Also use the `xhost' program to verify that it is set to permit
> connections from your machine.
>
> [sgupta@sguptaxxxx /cygdrive/c]$
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ejfried@ca.sandia.gov [mailto:ejfried@ca.sandia.gov]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 12:07 PM
> To: Samir Gupta
> Subject: Re: looking for what is hopefully a simple answer for someone
> trying to use EMACS in cygwin
>
>
> I think Samir Gupta wrote:
> >
> > 2) why do I have to enter an IP address in the Display variable if I am
> > using cygwin on my local machine?  What would I do if I were not
connected
> > to a network?
>
> You can omit the address and the screen number -- i.e., set DISPLAY to
> ":0" and this will be fine. The local machine is then understood.
>
>
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