From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Cygwin emacs - does it work? Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:35:00 +0200 Message-ID: <48986514.9020007@gmail.com> References: <48985B66.3090207@gmail.com> <87bq075zhn.fsf@catnip.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1217947200 30305 80.91.229.12 (5 Aug 2008 14:40:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 14:40:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Devel To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 05 16:40:51 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KQNiR-0005xx-PA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:40:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35874 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KQNhW-00079S-Jt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Aug 2008 10:39:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KQNd3-0001mP-99 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Aug 2008 10:35:13 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KQNd2-0001l1-7c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Aug 2008 10:35:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49830 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KQNd1-0001km-W4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Aug 2008 10:35:12 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]:38028) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KQNcx-00079U-J3; Tue, 05 Aug 2008 10:35:07 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-151-176.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.151.176]:62207 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1KQNcu-0005JN-9T; Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:35:05 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <87bq075zhn.fsf@catnip.gol.com> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080805-0, 2008-08-05), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.151.176 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1KQNcu-0005JN-9T. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1KQNcu-0005JN-9T 70d312d45926f0d86a5ad9d30d789804 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:102089 Archived-At: Miles Bader wrote: > "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" writes: >> I just out of curiosity installed Cygwin Emacs. Now I am more curious >> about why this version of Emacs is there. > > It certainly _used_ to work just fine, and is of course quite useful for > using with a cygwin installation. > > I've only installed it from the standard cygwin package though... > [about 7 months ago] I just installed the cygwin Emacs for X. I have never used X. When I try to start Emacs now I get the rather incomprehensible: $ emacs emacs: Cannot connect to X server localhost:0.0. Check the DISPLAY environment variable or use `-d'. Also use the `xhost' program to verify that it is set to permit connections from your machine. What?