Trouble running emacs on new box

[Ken Brown]

On 7/29/2016 4:51 PM, David Karr wrote:
> I had Cygwin running on an old box for a while.  I have a desktop
> shortcut to run Emacs, using the following command line:
> ---------------------
> C:\cygwin64\bin\run2.exe --display 127.0.0.1:0.0 /usr/local/bin/emacs.xml
> ----------------
>
> This was working fine.  I set this up quite a while ago, so I don't
> quite remember the circumstances of the pieces of this.
>
> I'm now setting up cygwin on a new box, with very similar
> configuration. Unfortunately, setting up Cygwin is something I don't
> do very often, and it's usually a year or more since the last time I
> did it.  I've already reviewed the FAQ and User Guide for hints.
>
> When I first tried this command line, it failed without any good error
> messages.  I later realized that one good reason it's failing is that
> "/usr/local/bin/emacs.xml" doesn't exist on the new box.  I looked at
> this file on the old box, and it seems relatively simple, but is this
> a file I'm supposed to create myself?  I don't remember doing this.

You have to run the script /usr/bin/make-emacs-shortcut to create that 
file.  See /usr/share/doc/emacs/README.Cygwin for details.

Ken



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