xemacs
Cary Jamison
CaryJ57@NetZero.net
Wed Feb 13 20:42:00 GMT 2008
Taras D wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Can anyone tell me why the following has occurred.
>
> When I first installed cygwin, I pretty much just installed xemacs (no
> emacs and a whole bunch of other stuff). Xemacs could be started from
> the bash script (black background) with the command 'xemacs &'. It
> would start in a new window with a white background.
>
> Now that I have installed a whole bunch of other cygwin things:
>
> 1) I find I need to run startxwin.sh, then type 'xemacs &' in the
> shell with a white background (no longer runs from the black
> background)
> 2) xemacs now starts with a grey bacground (?!)
>
> How come this has changed? Is it a different version of xemacs?
>
> Thanks all
xemacs has three modes:
DISPLAY variable set : use X windows
xemacs -nw : don't use windows (use term/console)
xemacs <no DISPLAY or -nw> : use MS windows
Cary
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