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Re: 'emacs' command becomes a no-op


Chap Harrison wrote:
After bringing everything up-to-date in Cygwin (Windows Server 2003), emacs won't run. I give the command, it thinks for half a second, and then gives me the command prompt.

I'm also noticing different behavior from readline in a Perl script.

I'm using mintty, which got upgraded in the process.

If there's a system log somewhere, I don't know where it is, to look for error messages.

Could anyone suggest a next step?

After starting emacs, type 'echo $?' at the shell prompt. If you get '53' (Cygwin's equivalent to '42' ;-) ), then you're missing a DLL emacs needs. Run 'cygcheck emacs' to find out which one and then install (or reinstall) the package containing that DLL.

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