How to run GNU Emacs from Windows icon

[Andrew DeFaria]

David Karr wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf
>> Of Andrew DeFaria
>> Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 8:47 AM
>> To: cygwin@cygwin.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).
-- 
Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com>
Computers make very fast, very accurate mistakes.


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