X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_NEUTRAL,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4DD0F8F0.8030608@cornell.edu> Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 06:14:08 -0400 From: Ken Brown User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Using Cygwin Emacs References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 On 5/16/2011 12:35 AM, Sayth Renshaw wrote: > I have installed emacs and followed the instruction to create the > emacs-shortcut. > > renshaw AT RenshawResidence /usr/bin > $ make-emacs-shortcut > *** Info: Created /usr/local/bin/emacs.xml. > *** Info: Created /usr/bin/emacs.lnk. > *** Info: You should move it to the desired location. > *** Info: Feel free to edit its properties > *** Info: or the contents of /usr/local/bin/emacs.xml. > > However emacs will not run from the shortcut, Did you install the mintty and run2 packages? See /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/emacs.README, under "Runtime requirements". > so I tried running emacs > from the bash shell, however it gave a message that this required the > bourne shell. Is there a way to set the Bourne shell as default so i > can launch emacs from it? There's no need to change your default shell; emacs runs fine under bash. Could there be something in your .emacs file that's causing the problem? To eliminate this possibility, start emacs with the command 'emacs -Q', preferably in a mintty window. If something goes wrong, please copy and paste the error message in your reply. Also, please follow the problem-reporting guidelines at http://cygwin.com/problems.html including the part about attaching the output of 'cygcheck -s -v -r'. Ken -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple