Re: Cygwin emacs - does it work?

[Angelo Graziosi <angelo.graziosi@alice.it>]

Lennart Borgman (gmail) ha scritto:

> Eric Hanchrow wrote:
>> I think you need to set an environment variable before starting Cygwin
>> -- "set CYGWIN=tty" might do it.

> That is frustrating too ;-)

>> In general though, I've found Cygwin emacs to be too frustrating to use;
>> I instead use the native Win32 emacs, but with lots of Cygwin tools such
>> as bash, coreutils, and find.

Why 'frustrating'?

I start the GTK build of Emacs trunk (and the X server if needs) with a 
link on the Desktop.

The target of the link is:

C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe bash -l start_emacs-X.sh

and

$ $ cat /usr/local/bin/start_emacs-X.sh
#!/bin/bash

#export DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
export DISPLAY=:0

#export PATH=/usr/X11R6/bin:"$PATH"
# export XAPPLRESDIR=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults
# export XCMSDB=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/Xcms.txt
# export XKEYSYMDB=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XKeysymDB
# export XNLSPATH=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale

## --------------------------------------------------------

start_XWin()
{
     # Cleanup from last run.
     rm -rf /tmp/.X11-unix

     XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error +bs &
}

/usr/bin/checkX || start_XWin

## --------------------------------------------------------

## Workaround to use GTK build of Emacs
export G_SLICE=always-malloc

exec /usr/local/bin/emacs

==================================================================

The link can be created automatically running:

## Emacs
mkshortcut -A \
     -n Emacs \
     -D /usr/bin/run.exe \
     -a 'bash -l start_emacs-X.sh' \
     -i /usr/local/bin/emacs.ico \
     -d "Editor di testo" \
     -w ''


Cheers,
    Angelo.

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