Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Mark Hadfield Subject: Re: emacs issues Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 15:14:30 +1200 Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <200507200139.j6K1d8KE021783@scanner2.ics.uci.edu> <42DDB838.39F53C69@dessent.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) In-Reply-To: <42DDB838.39F53C69@dessent.net> X-IsSubscribed: yes Brian Dessent wrote: > I would suggest rxvt. Personally, I use the "CMD.EXE prompt" as little > as possible (i.e., not at all) I like your turn of phrase! > with Cygwin because frankly, it sucks > hard. I suspect that I am not alone. No you are not, but I would like to quibble with your teminology. The "Windows terminal" thingy that cmd.exe normally runs in is more accurately termed a "console window". It is not tied to cmd.exe. You can run bash in a console window if you want (eg type "bash" at the "Run..." prompt) and you can run cmd.exe in an rxvt window. But I do these things as little as possible... So I agree with your advice: if you want to run Cygwin applications like emacs in "no window" mode, use an rxvt terminal instead of a console window. -- Mark Hadfield "Kei puwaha te tai nei, Hoea tahi tatou" m.hadfield@niwa.co.nz National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) -- 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/