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From: Benjamin Riefenstahl <Benjamin.Riefenstahl@epost.de>
Subject: Re: starting Emacs 21 in a terminal
Date: 04 Feb 2003 17:46:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3znpc9eoi.fsf@cicero.benny.turtle-trading.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: u1y2ppy67.fsf@sdm.de

Hi Klaus,


Klaus Berndl <klaus.berndl@sdm.de> writes:

> I'm using NTEmacs 21.1 and cygwin-bash plus cygwin rxvt (a
> xterm-emulation).
> 
> If i call on the command-line "emacs -nw" to start Emacs with
> no-windows then i always get the error: "emacs: standard input is
> not a tty" and Emacs doesn't start.

IIRC, there is a Cygwin environment option CYGWIN=tty, that might
help.

> What can be the problem...XEmacs starts fine with "xemacs -nw"...

The basic problem is that there is no documented way in Windows to
create a pseudo-tty like in Unix.  So if you are not using the regular
NT console, Cygwin and rxvt have to play tricks, and even than it
doesn't always work.


Hope this helps, benny

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-02-04 16:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-02-03  8:26 starting Emacs 21 in a terminal Klaus Berndl
2003-02-03 18:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found] ` <mailman.1351.1044298990.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-02-04  8:07   ` Klaus Berndl
2003-02-04  8:19     ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-02-04 16:46 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl [this message]
2003-02-04 17:02   ` Klaus Berndl
2003-02-04 19:59     ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-02-04 20:41       ` Mei Wu
     [not found]       ` <mailman.1401.1044391762.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-02-05 10:22         ` Kai Großjohann
2003-02-05 14:22     ` Benjamin Riefenstahl

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