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From: "David Karr" <dkarr AT real DOT com>
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Subject: How to run GNU Emacs from Windows icon
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 16:07:58 -0700
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I'm now to the point where I can run "rxvt", and then from the spawned Bash
process I can run "emacs" and get a reasonable Emacs process going.  I can
do the same with "xemacs".

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

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.
-----------------

I've made some guesses on what terminal type it should be set to, but I
haven't gotten this to work.


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