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Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2013 16:12:59 -0400
From: Ken Brown <kbrown AT cornell DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: Emacs doesn't start from icon after update to 1.7.25
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On 9/22/2013 2:06 PM, KARR, DAVID wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: On Behalf Of
>> Ken Brown
>> Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2013 6:10 AM
>> To: cygwin
>> Subject: Re: Emacs doesn't start from icon after update to 1.7.25
>>
>> On 9/21/2013 8:42 PM, KARR, DAVID wrote:
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From:  On Behalf Of
>>>> Ken Brown
>>>> On 9/20/2013 7:26 PM, KARR, DAVID wrote:
>>>>> Today I updated 1.7.25.  I was a handful of minor releases behind at the
>>>> time.
>>>>>
>>>>> After the update, I can't start Emacs from the icon anymore.  The
>> shortcut
>>>> command I have for it is the following:
>>>>>
>>>>>        C:\Cygwin\bin\run.exe -p /usr/bin bash -l -i -c "emacs -display
>>>> 127.0.0.1:0.0 --debug-init"
>>>>
>>>> I don't think this has anything to do with emacs.  There have been
>>>> several reports of problems with run-1.3.0-1.  Try downgrading to the
>>>> previous version of run, or switch to run2.
>>>
>>> I first tried just changing the command line to "run2".  No change.
>>
>> run2 is not a drop-in replacement for run.  If you want to use it, you
>> have to install the run2 package and read the documentation.  Or you
>> could run the script /usr/bin/make-emacs-shortcut, which creates a
>> shortcut that uses run2.
>
> I already had run2 installed.  I ran "make-emacs-shortcut".  I moved the resulting shortcut to the desktop, giving it a new name.  I double-clicked it.  Nothing happened.  I than created a cmd window and pasted in the command line from the shortcut and ran it.  Nothing.  I then pasted in the command line from the old shortcut, and Emacs came up.

I'd like to find out what went wrong with the shortcut created by 
make-emacs-shortcut.  What's the target?  And what are the contents of 
the emacs.xml file that it uses?

Ken

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