Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 21:37:01 +0100 Message-ID: <7362-Mon17Jul2000213702+0100-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> X-Mailer: 21.1 (patch 7) "Biscayne" XEmacs Lucid (via feedmail 9-beta-7 I); VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 7) "Biscayne" XEmacs Lucid From: David Starks-Browning MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Eric De Mund CC: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: emacs -nw (Was: empty zsh prompt string under Cygwin 1.1.0 xterm) In-Reply-To: <14691.47954.24110.298213@idiom.com> References: <0FX80081294JWC@la-la.cambridgesiliconradio.com> <0FX80089PBREWC@la-la.cambridgesiliconradio.com> <14691.47954.24110.298213@idiom.com> On Wednesday 5 Jul 00, Eric De Mund writes: > ... > > All I need figure out now is how to get "emacs -nw" under the xterm(1) > to stop saying "emacs: standard input is not a tty" and then exiting. I > wonder if I need to build emacs from source and not use a precompiled > version; it's the last program in the equation now that is not built > using cygwin. Unfortunately, you cannot. Gnu Emacs ('nt-emacs') is not ported to Cygwin. You should be able to build xemacs using Cygwin, and then 'xemacs -nw' will work. (Should this go into the FAQ?) Regards, David -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com