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Subject: Re: Trouble running emacs on new box
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On 07/29/2016 07:06 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
> 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.

Ah, ok.  Wouldn't it be a good idea for some of this information to be 
put into the generated file as a comment?  That's a typical practice for 
generated text files.
>
> Ken
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