From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Cygwin emacs - does it work? Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:41:21 +0200 Message-ID: <489ADF61.7070306@gmail.com> References: <48985B66.3090207@gmail.com> <87bq075zhn.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <48986514.9020007@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1218109326 19693 80.91.229.12 (7 Aug 2008 11:42:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 11:42:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Devel , Miles Bader To: Stephen Leake Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 07 13:42:56 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KR3tG-0007k1-Lr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:42:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43627 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KR3sL-0005L6-7T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:41:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KR3sH-0005JA-1g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:41:45 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KR3sD-0005GF-To for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:41:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=38276 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KR3sD-0005Fy-Hn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:41:41 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]:55746) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KR3s7-0002yK-Pc; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:41:36 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-151-176.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.151.176]:62305 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1KR3s6-0004Zk-72; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:41:34 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080806-0, 2008-08-06), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.151.176 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1KR3s6-0004Zk-72. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1KR3s6-0004Zk-72 6649a34b4d973766fdb042a7aafa8e78 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:102156 Archived-At: Stephen Leake wrote: > "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" writes: > >> Miles Bader wrote: >>> "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" 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.