cygwin emacs HOWTO?

[Joe Buehler]

Tom Roche wrote:

>  > 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.
> 
> I get the same message for 'emacs -nw'? What do I need to tell
> emacs? or cygwin? or both?

Make sure terminfo is installed -- there should be a file
/usr/lib/terminfo/c/cygwin.

Unset TERMINFO if it is set.

Make sure the CYGWIN variable includes "tty".

Also, note that there is a separate package for X11 emacs.  If you don't
install it, all you get from the "emacs" package is the usual terminal-mode
emacs.

Joe Buehler




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