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Subject: RE: How to run GNU Emacs from Windows icon
Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 08:58:54 -0700
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com] On Behalf
> Of Andrew DeFaria
> Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 8:47 AM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Re: How to run GNU Emacs from Windows icon
> 
> 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.

It may not produce any difficult symptoms with XEmacs itself, but without
that I don't get a normal login shell out of the box.

> > 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?

Again, so I get a login shell.  In any case, this has no effect on the
symptom.  I tried doing this without bash, and it fails in exactly the same
way.

Thanks.


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