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Date:	Mon, 10 Sep 2001 16:03:20 +0100
Message-ID:	<9783-Mon10Sep2001160320+0100-starksb@ebi.ac.uk>
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From:	David Starks-Browning <starksb AT ebi DOT ac DOT uk>
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To:	"Olle Sundblad" <osu AT nada DOT kth DOT se>
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Subject:	Missing minibuffer when running emacs -nw
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On Monday 10 Sep 01, Olle Sundblad writes:
> I don't know if this is a Cygwin och Emacs problem:
> 
> When I run "emacs -nw" in a cygwin shell the emacs minibuffer (and menu)
> seems to end up outside the window boundary so I can't see the minibuffer
> until I actually enter it (with M-x). And when I do enter the minibuffer the
> main buffer shows nothing. Is there a way to solve this problem (I didn't
> find anything in the FAQ, or the mail archives)?
> 
> I use Emacs version 20.7.1 and a newly updated version of Cygwin in w2k

Hmmph.  When I try that on NT4 I get

	"emacs: standard input is not a tty"

so I'd say you're lucky! :-)

(I can duplicate the behavior you describe in a Windows "Command Prompt"
shell, but not with Cygwin.)

Regards,
David


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