From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9004 invoked by alias); 16 May 2011 10:14:25 -0000 Received: (qmail 8995 invoked by uid 22791); 16 May 2011 10:14:24 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_NEUTRAL,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from granite1.mail.cornell.edu (HELO authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu) (128.253.83.141) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 16 May 2011 10:14:10 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.4] (cpe-67-249-194-47.twcny.res.rr.com [67.249.194.47]) (authenticated bits=0) by authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.12.10) with ESMTP id p4GAE8fN012010 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Mon, 16 May 2011 06:14:09 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4DD0F8F0.8030608@cornell.edu> Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 10:14:00 -0000 From: Ken Brown User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Using Cygwin Emacs References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2011-05/txt/msg00231.txt.bz2 On 5/16/2011 12:35 AM, Sayth Renshaw wrote: > I have installed emacs and followed the instruction to create the > emacs-shortcut. > > renshaw@RenshawResidence /usr/bin > $ make-emacs-shortcut > *** Info: Created /usr/local/bin/emacs.xml. > *** Info: Created /usr/bin/emacs.lnk. > *** Info: You should move it to the desired location. > *** Info: Feel free to edit its properties > *** Info: or the contents of /usr/local/bin/emacs.xml. > > However emacs will not run from the shortcut, Did you install the mintty and run2 packages? See /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/emacs.README, under "Runtime requirements". > so I tried running emacs > from the bash shell, however it gave a message that this required the > bourne shell. Is there a way to set the Bourne shell as default so i > can launch emacs from it? There's no need to change your default shell; emacs runs fine under bash. Could there be something in your .emacs file that's causing the problem? To eliminate this possibility, start emacs with the command 'emacs -Q', preferably in a mintty window. If something goes wrong, please copy and paste the error message in your reply. Also, please follow the problem-reporting guidelines at http://cygwin.com/problems.html including the part about attaching the output of 'cygcheck -s -v -r'. Ken -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple