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Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 13:50:41 -0500
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On 1/17/2010 9:45 AM, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 1/17/2010 3:39 AM, Mahesh P wrote:
>> hi!
>>
>> I have installed the Emacs package again but it does not run.
>> I opened the emacs file in windows and tried to add autosave-default-1
>> in the emacs file to stop autosave and after that when i tried to run
>> emacs from the console it gives me the error
>> bash: usr/bin/emacs: Permission denied.The ls-l usr/bin/emacs gives no
>> such file or directory
>
> I assume you're replying to my message
>
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-01/msg00681.html
>
> Please *reply*, rather than just starting a new message, so that the
> archives will show the whole thread.
>
> You really need to follow *all* the guidelines at
>
> http://cygwin.com/problems.html
>
> including (but not limited to) attaching the requested cygcheck output.
>
> I can't help you based on the limited information you've supplied so
> far. For example, what do you mean by "the emacs file"? What do you mean
> by saying that you opened it "in windows"? And I asked you to run the
> command 'ls -l /usr/bin/emacs*', but your reply refers to 'ls-l
> usr/bin/emacs', which differs in three ways from what I wrote. So I
> don't know what you actually did. You should always copy and paste when
> saying what you did and what errors you got, in order to avoid
> typographical errors.

Wait a minute....  My crystal ball is telling me that you might have 
actually edited the file /usr/bin/emacs.  Is that what you did?  That's 
a Cygwin symbolic link, which won't be recognized as such by a Windows 
editor.

Ken

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