How to run GNU Emacs from Windows icon

David Karr dkarr@real.com
Thu Jun 4 16:10:00 GMT 2009


> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf
> Of Ken Brown
> Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 4:52 AM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: How to run GNU Emacs from Windows icon
> 
> On 6/2/2009 7:18 AM, Ken Brown wrote:
> > On 6/2/2009 5:30 AM, Marc Girod wrote:
> >> I can also start a Cygwin window, and run GNU emacs there (with a -nw
> >> option).
> >> It starts, although doesn't work well. The keyboard bindings are weird
> >> for a
> >> start (e.g. C-x C-c gives in fact C-x C-g, which forces you to exit
> >> with M-x
> >> kill-emacs).
> >> I'm sure this was discussed already.
> >
> > You need to have 'tty' in your CYGWIN environment variable in order to
> > prevent this from happening.  But even then, you'll find that many
> > keystrokes don't work as expected.  If you want to run emacs in a
> > terminal (rather than under X), you'll get much better results with
> > mintty or rxvt.
> 
> But none of this addresses the OP's original problem:
> 
> > emacs: Terminal type cygwin is not defined.
> 
> My guess is that this is a terminfo issue.  Try installing the terminfo0
> package.

Getting back to this, I already have terminfo0 installed.

I tried Marc Girod's emacs.bat script from an earlier reply, but it doesn't
work for me because I already have an X server running.  What I really need
is something that gives me a regular separate Windows decorated frame, with
Emacs running inside.  I get that out of the box with XEmacs, but some
things work a little better in GNU Emacs, so I'm trying to get that working.


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