Re: Cygwin emacs - does it work?

["Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>]

Stephen Leake wrote:
> "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> Miles Bader wrote:
>>> "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:
>>>> I just out of curiosity installed Cygwin Emacs. Now I am more curious
>>>> about why this version of Emacs is there.
>>> It certainly _used_ to work just fine, and is of course quite useful for
>>> using with a cygwin installation.
>>>
>>> I've only installed it from the standard cygwin package though...
>>> [about 7 months ago]
>>
>> I just installed the cygwin Emacs for X. I have never used X. 
> 
> I use this for reading email with Gnus at work, because the mail
> server requires 'starttls', which I could only get to work via Cygwin.
> 
>> When I try to start Emacs now I get the rather incomprehensible:
>>
>>   $ emacs
>>   emacs: Cannot connect to X server localhost:0.0.
>>   Check the DISPLAY environment variable or use `-d'.
>>   Also use the `xhost' program to verify that it is set to permit
>>   connections from your machine.
>>
>> What?
> 
> You need to start the X server first. I use:
> 
> export DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
> 
> XWin -clipboard -multiwindow -multimonitors -silent-dup-error -logverbose 0 &

Thanks. That made it a bit more clear.