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From: "H. Dieter Wilhelm" <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Running Emacs in an MSYS2 shell (or terminal?)
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2022 20:20:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86bkzzy646.fsf@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83bkzziw8z.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 25 Jan 2022 19:02:52 +0200")

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: "H. Dieter Wilhelm" <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de>
>> Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2022 17:37:17 +0100
>> 
>> when starting Emacs with
>> 
>>   $ ./emacs.exe -nw
>> 
>> it says
>> 
>>   emacs: standard input is not a tty.
>> 
>> and "emacsclient.exe -nw" is creating a new frame.
>> 
>> What can I do to use emacs.exe or emacsclient.exe in such a shell
>> without starting a new frame?
>
> Is this when invoking Emacs from mintty (or what's the default
> terminal program in MSYS2 is called these days)?

yes, mintty (3.5.2)

> If so, I think this is a question for MSYS2 folks or maybe for Cygwin
> folks.  Basically, I believe stdin is a pipe in that case, and Emacs
> cannot cope with that in -nw mode.

Thanks

-- 
Best wishes
H. Dieter Wilhelm
Zwingenberg, Germany



  reply	other threads:[~2022-01-25 19:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-25 16:37 Running Emacs in an MSYS2 shell (or terminal?) H. Dieter Wilhelm
2022-01-25 17:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-25 19:20   ` H. Dieter Wilhelm [this message]
2022-01-25 17:51 ` Óscar Fuentes
2022-01-25 19:31   ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2022-01-26  9:24 ` Arash Esbati
2022-01-26 16:55   ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2022-01-26 17:32     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-26 18:36       ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2022-01-26 18:31     ` Arash Esbati

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