Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <5A1F6B8E14097144AF309F36A29327220F7208@iris.win.barra.com> From: Samir Gupta To: "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" Subject: RE: looking for what is hopefully a simple answer for someone try ing to use EMACS in cygwin Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 15:39:43 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Yes, something must have happened to my cygwin emacs, because, earlier today, I think it was interacting with my exceed program somehow. It was letting me run emacs in cygwin the same way I did it in exceed. So, if I typed, "emacs &" from my cygwin tcsh shell, it would open up my file in a separate window. Somehow it was opening it up in an exceed window. I reinstalled cygwin emacs, and now it functions "normally". I wish I knew what happenned to make it work the other way. The cygstart command works, but I don't like using emacs in the dos window. -----Original Message----- From: lhall AT pop DOT ma DOT ultranet DOT com [mailto:lhall AT pop DOT ma DOT ultranet DOT com] Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 3:18 PM To: samir DOT gupta AT barra DOT com; cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: RE: looking for what is hopefully a simple answer for someone trying to use EMACS in cygwin OK, you're confused. You mingled the idea of using the X version with the idea of running a console version of emacs in a different "Windows" window. Try: cygstart emacs I didn't try it with emacs because I don't have it. Works with vim though. ;-) See "man cygstart" if you have questions about it. Larry Original Message: ----------------- From: Samir Gupta samir DOT gupta AT Barra DOT COM Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 14:18:53 -0800 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: RE: looking for what is hopefully a simple answer for someone trying to use EMACS in cygwin Hello, Yes, that is what I am trying to do. However, I would like emacs to open up in a separate window from the prompt window. to open up my tcsh I am running: rxvt -e tcsh then, from the tcsh prompt: 1) If I type "emacs" I get the error I pasted below (if the enviornment variable DISPLAY is set). 2) If I type "emacs" and the environment variable DISPLAY is not set, then emacs opens up in the current window. 3) If I type "emacs -nw", then regardless of whether or not DISPLAY is set, emacs opens up in the current window. But I can't get emacs to open up in its own window....! -----Original Message----- From: Elfyn McBratney [mailto:elfyn-cygwin AT exposure DOT org DOT uk] Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 2:06 PM To: cygwin; Samir Gupta Subject: Re: looking for what is hopefully a simple answer for someone trying to use EMACS in cygwin > Why would exceed cause this problem? I have the problem even when I don't > run exceed on this computer. I am also almost certain that this did not > work when I tried it on a computer that did not have exceed on it at all. > Are you trying to run plain-old emacs from a cygwin prompt and it keeps telling you about the X thing? If so just run `emacs -nw'. If not, then Sorry! :-) Regards, Elfyn McBratney elfyn AT exposure DOT org DOT uk www.exposure.org.uk > Is there anything else that could be wrong? > > Thanks > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: lhall AT pop DOT ma DOT ultranet DOT com [mailto:lhall AT pop DOT ma DOT ultranet DOT com] > Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 1:41 PM > To: samir DOT gupta AT barra DOT com; cygwin AT cygwin DOT com > Subject: RE: looking for what is hopefully a simple answer for someone > trying to use EMACS in cygwin > > > Sounds like a problem with Exceed to me then. > > Larry > > Original Message: > ----------------- > From: Samir Gupta samir DOT gupta AT Barra DOT COM > Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 12:32:18 -0800 > To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com > Subject: RE: looking for what is hopefully a simple answer for someone > trying to use EMACS in cygwin > > > That does not work for some reason, here is what happens when I open up a > tcsh shell (without my .tcshrc): > > [sgupta AT sguptaxxxx /cygdrive/c]$ echo $DISPLAY > :0 > [sgupta AT sguptaxxxx /cygdrive/c]$ emacs > emacs: Cannot connect to X server :0. > Check the DISPLAY environment variable or use `-d'. > Also use the `xhost' program to verify that it is set to permit > connections from your machine. > > [sgupta AT sguptaxxxx /cygdrive/c]$ > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: ejfried AT ca DOT sandia DOT gov [mailto:ejfried AT ca DOT sandia DOT gov] > Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 12:07 PM > To: Samir Gupta > Subject: Re: looking for what is hopefully a simple answer for someone > trying to use EMACS in cygwin > > > I think Samir Gupta wrote: > > > > 2) why do I have to enter an IP address in the Display variable if I am > > using cygwin on my local machine? What would I do if I were not connected > > to a network? > > You can omit the address and the screen number -- i.e., set DISPLAY to > ":0" and this will be fine. 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