From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Klaus Berndl Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: starting Emacs 21 in a terminal Date: 04 Feb 2003 18:02:38 +0100 Organization: sd&m AG, Muenchen, Germany Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1044379824 21115 80.91.224.249 (4 Feb 2003 17:30:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 17:30:24 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18g6tA-0005Qu-00 for ; Tue, 04 Feb 2003 18:29:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18g6bW-00033z-05 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Feb 2003 12:11:26 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!fr.usenet-edu.net!usenet-edu.net!proxad.net!proxad.net!news-hub.cableinet.net!blueyonder!btnet-peer!btnet!lnewspeer01.lnd.ops.eu.uu.net!emea.uu.net!news.sdm.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 42 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: sachrang.muc.sdm.de Original-X-Trace: solti3.muc.sdm.de 1044378158 20466 193.102.182.12 (4 Feb 2003 17:02:38 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.sdm.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 4 Feb 2003 17:02:38 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:109788 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:6298 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:6298 On 04 Feb 2003, Benjamin Riefenstahl wrote: > Hi Klaus, > > > Klaus Berndl 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. No, i have this setting - it doesn't matter... > > > 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. It doesn't work regardless if using the regular NT console or Cygwin rxvt... I think Eli had the best explanation of the problem...i should write a bug report... Thanks, Klaus -- Klaus Berndl mailto: klaus.berndl@sdm.de sd&m AG http://www.sdm.de software design & management Thomas-Dehler-Str. 27, 81737 München, Germany Tel +49 89 63812-392, Fax -220