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Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2013 14:25:34 +0100
From: Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it>
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On 12/05/13 16:01, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Andrea Venturoli <ml <at> netfence.it> writes:
>> Of course, emacs is a shell script.
>
> Of course it should be a symlink, pointing to emacs-X11 on a standard
> installation.

Right.
It's a symlink to a symlink:

> $ which emacs
> /usr/bin/emacs
> $ ls -l /usr/bin/emacs
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 andrea mkgroup 23 11 set 12.22 /usr/bin/emacs -> /etc/alternatives/emacs
> $ ls -l /etc/alternatives/emacs
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 andrea mkgroup 22 11 set 12.22 /etc/alternatives/emacs -> /usr/bin/emacs-X11.exe

Then I would have expected strace to accept it, but it doesn't matter 
really.



> Did you read /usr/share/doc/emacs/README.Cygwin?

Now yes, thanks.



> Is the DISPLAY environment variable set correctly?

I think so.

$ env|grep DISPLAY
DISPLAY=:0.0



> Does Emacs "run" when you start it as "emacs-X11 -Q"?

No luck.
It either hangs, hogging the CPU, or quits without doing anything.



  bye & Thanks
	av.

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