X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com
DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id
	:list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post
	:list-help:sender:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date
	:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type
	:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=NeTrkRBhn35BKuQ0
	b9ZtY6n1jfQfpLZqcdaVn+2hKD/etgeUjXoxCcznckS20qIFGJQX+Uy4rWTna2zE
	u101aVtQCB1eXxHCgTRIb2t3G1txaxYbNpUtjTal/9VXIpVS6psfIkAgnj9ylGnQ
	0fF0t8roxdGUOC+iAf/WWhzHtjs=
DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id
	:list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post
	:list-help:sender:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date
	:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type
	:content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=HmA27e4p00oxevCjWmoWCl
	mzfw8=; b=adb8E2cBK1LLrGZQZD1wl71X7zNqoBNKW3nSiab2XPblNGtUxLhCWO
	vuN0Bg8KRnLZR19Gl0v5RPxAsae+N2XG5/hfXyNd7cjlAvYbqCrLBlfkx5gnYLXU
	n1huPv0PVXdAvBF9Kpjn6DlRgFdqbEVkTjELN0A0Ms/vfmMt/dKBI=
Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Id: <cygwin.cygwin.com>
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none
X-Virus-Found: No
X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=Trouble, Karr, karr, H*f:sk:UrJ2WHs
X-HELO: limerock02.mail.cornell.edu
X-CornellRouted: This message has been Routed already.
Subject: Re: Trouble running emacs on new box
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
References: <CAA5t8VrDwbJP4DDaPGoxfFqD+UrJ2WHs8OiCVqqgu3WS4vmrpA AT mail DOT gmail DOT com>
From: Ken Brown <kbrown AT cornell DOT edu>
Message-ID: <d1dd4679-518f-173d-142a-c51515568033@cornell.edu>
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2016 22:06:23 -0400
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2.0
MIME-Version: 1.0
In-Reply-To: <CAA5t8VrDwbJP4DDaPGoxfFqD+UrJ2WHs8OiCVqqgu3WS4vmrpA@mail.gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-PMX-Cornell-Gauge: Gauge=XXXXX
X-PMX-CORNELL-AUTH-RESULTS: dkim-out=none;
X-IsSubscribed: yes

On 7/29/2016 4:51 PM, David Karr wrote:
> I had Cygwin running on an old box for a while.  I have a desktop
> shortcut to run Emacs, using the following command line:
> ---------------------
> C:\cygwin64\bin\run2.exe --display 127.0.0.1:0.0 /usr/local/bin/emacs.xml
> ----------------
>
> This was working fine.  I set this up quite a while ago, so I don't
> quite remember the circumstances of the pieces of this.
>
> I'm now setting up cygwin on a new box, with very similar
> configuration. Unfortunately, setting up Cygwin is something I don't
> do very often, and it's usually a year or more since the last time I
> did it.  I've already reviewed the FAQ and User Guide for hints.
>
> When I first tried this command line, it failed without any good error
> messages.  I later realized that one good reason it's failing is that
> "/usr/local/bin/emacs.xml" doesn't exist on the new box.  I looked at
> this file on the old box, and it seems relatively simple, but is this
> a file I'm supposed to create myself?  I don't remember doing this.

You have to run the script /usr/bin/make-emacs-shortcut to create that 
file.  See /usr/share/doc/emacs/README.Cygwin for details.

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