How to run GNU Emacs from Windows icon

[David Karr]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf
> Of Ken Brown
> Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 11:37 AM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: How to run GNU Emacs from Windows icon
> 
> On 6/5/2009 11:58 AM, David Karr wrote:
> >>>> 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.
> >> 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.
> 
> I have a few other suggestions if you want to keep trying to track this
> down:
> 
> 1. Send cygcheck output (as an attachment) as requested at
> http://cygwin.com/problems.html

Attached.

> 2. Try emacs -q to make sure there's nothing in your initialization
> file(s) causing the problem.

No difference.  Considering the failure happens even before the window comes
up, I would have been shocked if it made a difference.

> 3. Try emacs 23:
> 
>    http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2009-05/msg00475.html
>    http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2009-05/msg00635.html

I'll proceed with that.

Thanks.
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