emacs installed but won't run

René Berber r.berber@computer.org
Mon Sep 14 06:40:00 GMT 2009


Charles Blair wrote:

>    When I type "emacs", I get a new command prompt, with no other
> messages.

That's expected when a library is missing, you can make sure by running
"emacs; echo $?" and getting error 53.

More interesting is knowing which library is missing, run "cygcheck
emacs".  Install whatever is missing; the real problem is a setup hint
file missing a dependency.
-- 
René Berber


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