Re: How to run GNU Emacs from Windows icon
On 6/4/2009 12:10 PM, David Karr wrote: 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 think the cause of your problem with emacs-21 may have been found: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-06/msg00615.html Anyway, I hope you're happily using emacs-23 now so that this is no longer relevant. (emacs-23 depends on terminfo rather than terminfo0.) Ken -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
RE: How to run GNU Emacs from Windows icon
-Original Message- From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Ken Brown Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 11:35 AM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: How to run GNU Emacs from Windows icon On 6/4/2009 12:10 PM, David Karr wrote: 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 think the cause of your problem with emacs-21 may have been found: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-06/msg00615.html Anyway, I hope you're happily using emacs-23 now so that this is no longer relevant. (emacs-23 depends on terminfo rather than terminfo0.) It is working fine, but I have a feeling the solution I ended up using probably would have worked in the regular version also. My shortcut command line is (paraphrased) rxvt bash emacs. I'm not going to worry too much about it at this point. Thanks. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
RE: How to run GNU Emacs from Windows icon
-Original Message- From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Andrew DeFaria Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 8:03 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: How to run GNU Emacs from Windows icon David Karr wrote: -Original Message- From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Andrew DeFaria Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 8:47 AM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: How to run GNU Emacs from Windows icon David Karr wrote: I now need to set up Windows desktop icons that can start these processes. I managed to get XEmacs working, with the following command line: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --login -c C:/cygwin/bin/xemacs-21.4.22.exe Why the insistence on running bash? Why not simply run Xemacs? That's what I do at work and it works fine for me. It may not produce any difficult symptoms with XEmacs itself, but without that I don't get a normal login shell out of the box. And why do you require a normal login shell? Here's what I have for my shortcut that starts up XEmacs: C:\Cygwin\bin\run.exe xemacs. Nothing else is required. I don't need to login. I'm logged in already. I just need to edit files... Again, why run bash first then run emacs? Again, so I get a login shell. In any case, this has no effect on the symptom. I tried doing this without bash, and it fails in exactly the same way. You have not defined what exactly your symptom is WRT xemacs. You stated: I managed to get XEmacs working, with the following command line: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --login -c C:/cygwin/bin/xemacs-21.4.22.exe Then went on to describe how it fails with emacs (not xemacs) because emacs and a problem with your terminal type. I would think that xemacs doesn't care as much about terminal type. Is xemacs failing with the same error about terminal type? What is TERM set to for you? (Me: it's set to cygwin). Sorry I didn't make that clear, but it wasn't really relevant to this. XEmacs is working fine with respect to basic startup from an icon. I'm having issues with the help window machinery, which doesn't have anything to do with these problems. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: How to run GNU Emacs from Windows icon
On 6/5/2009 11:03 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: And why do you require a normal login shell? He wants his bash initialization files to be processed so that he has the same environment (e.g., PATH) inside emacs that he normally has in a bash shell. Ken -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: How to run GNU Emacs from Windows icon
David Karr wrote: I now need to set up Windows desktop icons that can start these processes. I managed to get XEmacs working, with the following command line: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --login -c C:/cygwin/bin/xemacs-21.4.22.exe Why the insistence on running bash? Why not simply run Xemacs? That's what I do at work and it works fine for me. However, when I try to do something similar for GNU Emacs, it fails immediately. When I tried running the analogous command from the DOS prompt, I got this: - C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --login -c C:/cygwin/bin/emacs.exe emacs: Terminal type cygwin is not defined. If that is not the actual type of terminal you have, use the Bourne shell command `TERM=... export TERM' (C-shell: `setenv TERM ...') to specify the correct type. It may be necessary to do `unset TERMINFO' (C-shell: `unsetenv TERMINFO') as well. Again, why run bash first then run emacs? -- Andrew DeFaria http://defaria.com Press any key to continue or any other key to quit... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
RE: How to run GNU Emacs from Windows icon
-Original Message- From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Andrew DeFaria Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 8:47 AM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: How to run GNU Emacs from Windows icon David Karr wrote: I now need to set up Windows desktop icons that can start these processes. I managed to get XEmacs working, with the following command line: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --login -c C:/cygwin/bin/xemacs-21.4.22.exe Why the insistence on running bash? Why not simply run Xemacs? That's what I do at work and it works fine for me. It may not produce any difficult symptoms with XEmacs itself, but without that I don't get a normal login shell out of the box. However, when I try to do something similar for GNU Emacs, it fails immediately. When I tried running the analogous command from the DOS prompt, I got this: - C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --login -c C:/cygwin/bin/emacs.exe emacs: Terminal type cygwin is not defined. If that is not the actual type of terminal you have, use the Bourne shell command `TERM=... export TERM' (C-shell: `setenv TERM ...') to specify the correct type. It may be necessary to do `unset TERMINFO' (C-shell: `unsetenv TERMINFO') as well. Again, why run bash first then run emacs? Again, so I get a login shell. In any case, this has no effect on the symptom. I tried doing this without bash, and it fails in exactly the same way. Thanks. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: How to run GNU Emacs from Windows icon
On 6/5/2009 11:58 AM, David Karr wrote: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --login -c C:/cygwin/bin/emacs.exe emacs: Terminal type cygwin is not defined. If that is not the actual type of terminal you have, use the Bourne shell command `TERM=... export TERM' (C-shell: `setenv TERM ...') to specify the correct type. It may be necessary to do `unset TERMINFO' (C-shell: `unsetenv TERMINFO') as well. Again, why run bash first then run emacs? Again, so I get a login shell. In any case, this has no effect on the symptom. I tried doing this without bash, and it fails in exactly the same way. I have a few other suggestions if you want to keep trying to track this down: 1. Send cygcheck output (as an attachment) as requested at http://cygwin.com/problems.html 2. Try emacs -q to make sure there's nothing in your initialization file(s) causing the problem. 3. Try emacs 23: http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2009-05/msg00475.html http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2009-05/msg00635.html Ken -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
RE: How to run GNU Emacs from Windows icon
-Original Message- From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Ken Brown Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 11:37 AM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: How to run GNU Emacs from Windows icon On 6/5/2009 11:58 AM, David Karr wrote: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --login -c C:/cygwin/bin/emacs.exe emacs: Terminal type cygwin is not defined. If that is not the actual type of terminal you have, use the Bourne shell command `TERM=... export TERM' (C-shell: `setenv TERM ...') to specify the correct type. It may be necessary to do `unset TERMINFO' (C-shell: `unsetenv TERMINFO') as well. Again, why run bash first then run emacs? Again, so I get a login shell. In any case, this has no effect on the symptom. I tried doing this without bash, and it fails in exactly the same way. I have a few other suggestions if you want to keep trying to track this down: 1. Send cygcheck output (as an attachment) as requested at http://cygwin.com/problems.html Attached. 2. Try emacs -q to make sure there's nothing in your initialization file(s) causing the problem. No difference. Considering the failure happens even before the window comes up, I would have been shocked if it made a difference. 3. Try emacs 23: http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2009-05/msg00475.html http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2009-05/msg00635.html I'll proceed with that. Thanks. cygcheck.out Description: Binary data -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
RE: How to run GNU Emacs from Windows icon
-Original Message- From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Ken Brown Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 11:37 AM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: How to run GNU Emacs from Windows icon On 6/5/2009 11:58 AM, David Karr wrote: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --login -c C:/cygwin/bin/emacs.exe emacs: Terminal type cygwin is not defined. If that is not the actual type of terminal you have, use the Bourne shell command `TERM=... export TERM' (C-shell: `setenv TERM ...') to specify the correct type. It may be necessary to do `unset TERMINFO' (C-shell: `unsetenv TERMINFO') as well. Again, why run bash first then run emacs? Again, so I get a login shell. In any case, this has no effect on the symptom. I tried doing this without bash, and it fails in exactly the same way. I have a few other suggestions if you want to keep trying to track this down: 3. Try emacs 23: http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2009-05/msg00475.html http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2009-05/msg00635.html Ok, I've done some searching, but I can't figure out how to get this package. I've never installed experimental packages before. The latest available from setup.exe, even in experimental state, is 22.1-3. I assume I'm looking for -23.0.92-2? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: How to run GNU Emacs from Windows icon
On 6/5/2009 3:25 PM, David Karr wrote: 1. Send cygcheck output (as an attachment) as requested at http://cygwin.com/problems.html Attached. Two things jump out at me. First, it's clear from the environment variables that you ran cygcheck from a shell within emacs. I don't think it matters in this case, but in general it's probably best not to do that, since you want to see the environment *before* starting emacs. Emacs changes some of the variables. More importantly, I see this: CYGWIN = 'check_case:strict tty' I don't know whether this could be causing your problem, but the cygwin user's guide (http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html) says the following: check_case:level - THIS OPTION IS DEPRECATED. Don't use it unless you know what you're doing and don't see any way around it. And even then, this option is error prone, slows down Cygwin and not well maintained. On 6/5/2009 3:44 PM, David Karr wrote: Ok, I've done some searching, but I can't figure out how to get this package. I've never installed experimental packages before. The latest available from setup.exe, even in experimental state, is 22.1-3. I assume I'm looking for -23.0.92-2? Just run setup.exe, locate the emacs packages, and repeatedly click on the version number in the New column. It cycles through all of the choices, one of which should be 23.0.92-2. Ken Ken -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
RE: How to run GNU Emacs from Windows icon
-Original Message- From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Ken Brown Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 2:04 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: How to run GNU Emacs from Windows icon On 6/5/2009 3:25 PM, David Karr wrote: 1. Send cygcheck output (as an attachment) as requested at http://cygwin.com/problems.html Attached. Two things jump out at me. First, it's clear from the environment variables that you ran cygcheck from a shell within emacs. I don't think it matters in this case, but in general it's probably best not to do that, since you want to see the environment *before* starting emacs. Emacs changes some of the variables. Regenerated, and reattached. More importantly, I see this: CYGWIN = 'check_case:strict tty' I don't know whether this could be causing your problem, but the cygwin user's guide (http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html) says the following: check_case:level - THIS OPTION IS DEPRECATED. Don't use it unless you know what you're doing and don't see any way around it. And even then, this option is error prone, slows down Cygwin and not well maintained. Hmph. When I read the documentation for a framework, I almost always go directly to the PDF, if it's available. The PDF doesn't say anything about this being deprecated. I wouldn't have used it if it had. If I'm interpreting the modification date on the file properly, this PDF hasn't been regenerated in 5 years. Looking at this also made me realize a silly mistake I was making, in that I was setting CYGWIN in my .bashrc, not in my system env vars. I fixed that, and also removed check_case, but it had no obvious effect. On 6/5/2009 3:44 PM, David Karr wrote: Ok, I've done some searching, but I can't figure out how to get this package. I've never installed experimental packages before. The latest available from setup.exe, even in experimental state, is 22.1-3. I assume I'm looking for -23.0.92-2? Just run setup.exe, locate the emacs packages, and repeatedly click on the version number in the New column. It cycles through all of the choices, one of which should be 23.0.92-2. Ah, yes. It's been a while. Proceeding. cygcheck.out Description: Binary data -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
RE: How to run GNU Emacs from Windows icon
-Original Message- From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Ken Brown Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 11:37 AM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: How to run GNU Emacs from Windows icon On 6/5/2009 11:58 AM, David Karr wrote: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --login -c C:/cygwin/bin/emacs.exe emacs: Terminal type cygwin is not defined. If that is not the actual type of terminal you have, use the Bourne shell command `TERM=... export TERM' (C-shell: `setenv TERM ...') to specify the correct type. It may be necessary to do `unset TERMINFO' (C-shell: `unsetenv TERMINFO') as well. Again, why run bash first then run emacs? Again, so I get a login shell. In any case, this has no effect on the symptom. I tried doing this without bash, and it fails in exactly the same way. I have a few other suggestions if you want to keep trying to track this down: 1. Send cygcheck output (as an attachment) as requested at http://cygwin.com/problems.html 2. Try emacs -q to make sure there's nothing in your initialization file(s) causing the problem. 3. Try emacs 23: http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2009-05/msg00475.html http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2009-05/msg00635.html Ok, I've installed Emacs 23. The results are sort of better, but worse. Running it now, which actually runs emacs-X11 through a link, looks like emacs -nw. It's definitely not using X11. If I run it from a Bash prompt in rxvt, it comes up fine (with the minor annoyance that setting the frame-position at 0,0 doesn't mean the same thing as it did before), and the fonts are definitely nicer. :) Ken -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
RE: How to run GNU Emacs from Windows icon
-Original Message- From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Ken Brown Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 11:37 AM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: How to run GNU Emacs from Windows icon 3. Try emacs 23: http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2009-05/msg00475.html http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2009-05/msg00635.html For now, I can at least hide most of the cruft by using this as my shortcut command: C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -geometry 1x1 -e /usr/bin/bash --login -c emacs Along with hacking the frame-position to 4,26 (I imagine this will only be a temporary problem). This gives me a usable window without additional manual steps. (Now I just have to find a reasonable Windows icon for it.) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: How to run GNU Emacs from Windows icon
On 6/5/2009 5:46 PM, David Karr wrote: Ok, I've installed Emacs 23. The results are sort of better, but worse. Running it now, which actually runs emacs-X11 through a link, looks like emacs -nw. It's definitely not using X11. If you have an X server running and the DISPLAY environment variable set appropriately, emacs-X11 will use X11. Try this: Start the X server and then type 'emacs' in an xterm window. This should cause emacs to open in a new window, using X11. The startemacs.bat that I sent you earlier in the thread achieves the same effect (as long as the X server is running). Ken -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: How to run GNU Emacs from Windows icon
David Karr wrote: -Original Message- From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Andrew DeFaria Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 8:47 AM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: How to run GNU Emacs from Windows icon David Karr wrote: I now need to set up Windows desktop icons that can start these processes. I managed to get XEmacs working, with the following command line: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --login -c C:/cygwin/bin/xemacs-21.4.22.exe Why the insistence on running bash? Why not simply run Xemacs? That's what I do at work and it works fine for me. It may not produce any difficult symptoms with XEmacs itself, but without that I don't get a normal login shell out of the box. And why do you require a normal login shell? Here's what I have for my shortcut that starts up XEmacs: C:\Cygwin\bin\run.exe xemacs. Nothing else is required. I don't need to login. I'm logged in already. I just need to edit files... Again, why run bash first then run emacs? Again, so I get a login shell. In any case, this has no effect on the symptom. I tried doing this without bash, and it fails in exactly the same way. You have not defined what exactly your symptom is WRT xemacs. You stated: I managed to get XEmacs working, with the following command line: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --login -c C:/cygwin/bin/xemacs-21.4.22.exe Then went on to describe how it fails with emacs (not xemacs) because emacs and a problem with your terminal type. I would think that xemacs doesn't care as much about terminal type. Is xemacs failing with the same error about terminal type? What is TERM set to for you? (Me: it's set to cygwin). -- Andrew DeFaria http://defaria.com Computers make very fast, very accurate mistakes. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
RE: How to run GNU Emacs from Windows icon
-Original Message- From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@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. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: How to run GNU Emacs from Windows icon
On 6/4/2009 12:10 PM, David Karr wrote: 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. In that case, I don't know why emacs isn't recognizing the cygwin terminal type. It does for me. But I don't think it's worth investing a lot of time in debugging this, since, as I said before, emacs doesn't work well in the Cygwin console anyway. A better option would be to make a shortcut that runs mintty or rxvt with a command to start emacs. Even better, since you already have an X server running, you could use something like the following (which is the way I usually start emacs when I have an X server running): $ cat bin/startemacs.bat @echo off SET DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0 SET CYGWIN_ROOT=\cygwin-1.7 SET RUN=%CYGWIN_ROOT%\bin\run SET PATH=%CYGWIN_ROOT%\bin;%PATH% %RUN% bash -l -c /usr/bin/emacs The target of my windows shortcut is then D:\cygwin-1.7\bin\run.exe D:\cygwin-1.7\home\kbrown\bin\startemacs.bat Ken -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: How to run GNU Emacs from Windows icon
David Karr wrote: However, when I try to do something similar for GNU Emacs, it fails immediately. Do you want to run GNU emacs in terminal mode? I run it in X mode with: @echo off C: chdir C:\cygwin2\bin bash --login -c /usr/bin/startx /usr/bin/emacs -g 80x40+88+69 -- /usr/bin/X :0 -multiwindow -clipboard 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. Marc -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/How-to-run-GNU-Emacs-from-Windows-icon-tp23826930p23827772.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: How to run GNU Emacs from Windows icon
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. Ken -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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. Chuck, the ancient-but-still-current emacs requires libncurses7; the latter requires terminfo, but I think it should require terminfo0 instead. Ken -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: How to run GNU Emacs from Windows icon
On 6/2/2009 7:51 AM, Ken Brown wrote: Chuck, the ancient-but-still-current emacs requires libncurses7; the latter requires terminfo, but I think it should require terminfo0 instead. And, to head off the next question, I think the ancient-but-still-current version of emacs-X11 needs libXaw7 (http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-05/msg00619.html). Can someone add that to the requires line? Thanks. Ken -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: How to run GNU Emacs from Windows icon
Ken Brown-6 wrote: You need to have 'tty' in your CYGWIN environment variable in order to prevent this from happening. Thanks. Indeed. That's where I saw it (in http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html) But well, I don't need it myself since I run emacs in X mode. BTW, I have been using now nowinsymlinks in CYGWIN, as you suggested, and this didn't get rid of my lock file production under ClearCase... -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/How-to-run-GNU-Emacs-from-Windows-icon-tp23826930p23831706.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: How to run GNU Emacs from Windows icon
emacs can use gtk+, so libXaw7 is not necessary. Only one of the two, gtk+ or libXaw7 are required. I use gtk+ for example. Using gtk+ does require a simple work around to use it however, such as # put the following line in your ~/.xinitrc file export G_SLICE=always-malloc exec emacs or from within an x window more simply: (from an X-shell !) $ G_SLICE=always-malloc emacs regards, wynfield -- Ken Brown kbr...@cornell.edu wrote: And, to head off the next question, I think the ancient-but-still-current version of emacs-X11 needs libXaw7 (http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-05/msg00619.html). Can someone add that to the requires line? . ... Ken -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: How to run GNU Emacs from Windows icon
On 6/2/2009 8:34 PM, wynfi...@gmail.com wrote: emacs can use gtk+, so libXaw7 is not necessary. I agree that emacs can be built to use gtk+ instead of Xaw. The workaround you described would then allow that version to be used in cygwin. But the current cygwin emacs-X11 package was compiled to use the Xaw toolkit, not gtk+. Its setup.hint therefore needs to indicate that it requires libXaw7. Ken -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
