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Subject:  Re: How to run GNU Emacs from Windows icon
Date:  Fri, 05 Jun 2009 08:47:20 -0700
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David Karr wrote:
> I now need to set up Windows desktop icons that can start these 
> processes. I managed to get XEmacs working, with the following command 
> line:
>
> C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --login -c C:/cygwin/bin/xemacs-21.4.22.exe
Why the insistence on running bash? Why not simply run Xemacs? That's 
what I do at work and it works fine for me.
> However, when I try to do something similar for GNU Emacs, it fails 
> immediately. When I tried running the analogous command from the DOS 
> prompt, I got this:
>
> -----------------
>> C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --login -c "C:/cygwin/bin/emacs.exe"
> emacs: Terminal type cygwin is not defined.
> If that is not the actual type of terminal you have,
> use the Bourne shell command `TERM=... export TERM' (C-shell:
> `setenv TERM ...') to specify the correct type. It may be necessary
> to do `unset TERMINFO' (C-shell: `unsetenv TERMINFO') as well.
Again, why run bash first then run emacs?
-- 
Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com>
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