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 09:07:27 +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 1044346165 31875 80.91.224.249 (4 Feb 2003 08:09:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 08:09:25 +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 18fy8x-0008Hx-00 for ; Tue, 04 Feb 2003 09:09:23 +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 18fyA7-0004zo-04 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Feb 2003 03:10:35 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!fr.usenet-edu.net!usenet-edu.net!bnewspeer00.bru.ops.eu.uu.net!emea.uu.net!news.sdm.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 47 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: sachrang.muc.sdm.de Original-X-Trace: solti3.muc.sdm.de 1044346038 11295 193.102.182.12 (4 Feb 2003 08:07:18 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.sdm.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 4 Feb 2003 08:07:18 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:109766 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:6276 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:6276 On Mon, 03 Feb 2003, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > From: Klaus Berndl > > Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help > > Date: 03 Feb 2003 09:26:40 +0100 > > > > 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. > > > > What can be the problem... > > I suspect that the problem is some kind of incompatibility between > the Cygwin-compiled Bash/rxvt and NTEmacs: the way rxvt works is by > opening a pipe to the program(s) it runs, and it sounds like the pipe > it opens doesn't look as a tty to NTEmacs. > > > XEmacs starts fine with "xemacs -nw"... > > Is that a Cygwin-compiled XEmacs, per chance? Yes, indeed. > > Anyway, this sort of thing should be reported to gnu.emacs.bug, not > here. Yes, you are right, but i was not sure if this is a bug and our explanation tells me that this behavior can be a bug but can also be not a bug cause of trying to run NTEmacs in a cygwin compiled terminal-program. But next time i will report to gnu.emacs.bug.... 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