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Subject: RE: How to run GNU Emacs from Windows icon
Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 08:44:33 -0700
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com] On Behalf
> Of Andrew DeFaria
> Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 8:03 PM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Re: How to run GNU Emacs from Windows icon
> 
> David Karr wrote:
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com] On
> Behalf
> >> Of Andrew DeFaria
> >> Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 8:47 AM
> >> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> >> Subject: Re: How to run GNU Emacs from Windows icon
> >>
> >> David Karr wrote:
> >>> 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
> >> Why the insistence on running bash? Why not simply run Xemacs? That's
> >> what I do at work and it works fine for me.
> > It may not produce any difficult symptoms with XEmacs itself, but
> > without that I don't get a normal login shell out of the box.
> And why do you require a "normal login shell"? Here's what I have for my
> shortcut that starts up XEmacs: "C:\Cygwin\bin\run.exe xemacs". Nothing
> else is required. I don't need to "login". I'm logged in already. I just
> need to edit files...
> >> Again, why run bash first then run emacs?
> > Again, so I get a login shell. In any case, this has no effect on the
> > symptom. I tried doing this without bash, and it fails in exactly the
> > same way.
> You have not defined what exactly your "symptom" is WRT xemacs. You
> stated:
> 
> "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
> "
> 
> Then went on to describe how it fails with emacs (not xemacs) because
> emacs and a problem with your terminal type. I would think that xemacs
> doesn't care as much about terminal type. Is xemacs failing with the
> same error about terminal type? What is TERM set to for you? (Me: it's
> set to cygwin).

Sorry I didn't make that clear, but it wasn't really relevant to this.
XEmacs is working fine with respect to basic startup from an icon.  I'm
having issues with the help window machinery, which doesn't have anything to
do with these problems.


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