> Yes, that is what I am trying to do. However, I would like emacs to open up > in a separate window from the prompt window. > > to open up my tcsh I am running: > rxvt -e tcsh > > then, from the tcsh prompt: > > 1) If I type "emacs" I get the error I pasted below (if the enviornment > variable DISPLAY is set). > 2) If I type "emacs" and the environment variable DISPLAY is not set, then > emacs opens up in the current window. > 3) If I type "emacs -nw", then regardless of whether or not DISPLAY is set, > emacs opens up in the current window. > > [...] > > > > Why would exceed cause this problem? I have the problem even when I don't > > run exceed on this computer. I am also almost certain that this did not > > work when I tried it on a computer that did not have exceed on it at all. > > > > Are you trying to run plain-old emacs from a cygwin prompt and it keeps > telling you about the X thing? If so just run `emacs -nw'. If not, then > Sorry! :-) > [...]
O.K. I think you are thinking of linux where if you type it in in X it opens up the X version and if you add a '&' it opens backgrounded? If so, you can't really do that from what I can think of. What you can do is something similar to what cygwin does by placing a shortcut on your desktop running C:\Cygwin\bin\emacs.exe -nw -any-other-options-you-may-want-to-add ;-) And just clicking on it as and when you want to use emacs... Regards, Elfyn McBratney [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.exposure.org.uk -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/