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Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:49:21 -0400
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On 6/4/2009 12:10 PM, David Karr wrote:
>> On 6/2/2009 7:18 AM, Ken Brown wrote:
>>> 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.
>> But none of this addresses the OP's original problem:
>>
>>> emacs: Terminal type cygwin is not defined.
>> My guess is that this is a terminfo issue.  Try installing the terminfo0
>> package.
> 
> Getting back to this, I already have terminfo0 installed.

In that case, I don't know why emacs isn't recognizing the cygwin 
terminal type.  It does for me.  But I don't think it's worth investing 
a lot of time in debugging this, since, as I said before, emacs doesn't 
work well in the Cygwin console anyway.

A better option would be to make a shortcut that runs mintty or rxvt 
with a command to start emacs.  Even better, since you already have an X 
server running, you could use something like the following (which is the 
way I usually start emacs when I have an X server running):

$ cat bin/startemacs.bat
@echo off
SET DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
SET CYGWIN_ROOT=\cygwin-1.7
SET RUN=%CYGWIN_ROOT%\bin\run
SET PATH=%CYGWIN_ROOT%\bin;%PATH%
%RUN% bash -l -c /usr/bin/emacs&

The target of my windows shortcut is then

   D:\cygwin-1.7\bin\run.exe D:\cygwin-1.7\home\kbrown\bin\startemacs.bat

Ken

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