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Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 07:18:38 -0400
From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
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Subject: Re: How to run GNU Emacs from Windows icon
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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

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