From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: david@adboyd.com (J. David Boyd) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Best way to run on Windows XP Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 15:04:03 -0400 Message-ID: <81mzoazp0c.fsf@adboyd.com> References: <1122221022.525785.237790@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1122318952 30767 80.91.229.2 (25 Jul 2005 19:15:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 19:15:52 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 25 21:15:50 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dx8Pd-0002IW-39 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 21:14:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dx8Rv-0006ut-Vs for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 15:17:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dx8Px-00069x-FS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 15:15:13 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dx8Pm-00064k-84 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 15:15:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dx8Pk-0005wI-BI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 15:15:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA:16) (Exim 4.34) id 1Dx8RT-0001og-Dt for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 15:16:47 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Dx8Ft-0000eW-D2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 21:04:49 +0200 Original-Received: from rrcs-67-78-201-138.se.biz.rr.com ([67.78.201.138]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 21:04:49 +0200 Original-Received: from david by rrcs-67-78-201-138.se.biz.rr.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 21:04:49 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: rrcs-67-78-201-138.se.biz.rr.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (cygwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:4dSsdQrRcIa4AfNgRDCvab2njZs= X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:28177 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:28177 Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: Klaus Berndl >> Date: 25 Jul 2005 19:54:49 +0200 >> >> 2. Is a X-Server needed for running the cygwin-port of Emacs. > > Yes. No, it is not necessary at all. You can run emacs just fine in a console session, and I used to do it all the time, before I learned how to start up the Xserver in cygwin. Dave in Largo, FL