From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs won't start interactively Date: Sun, 26 May 2019 17:41:49 +0300 Message-ID: <83muj92s7m.fsf@gnu.org> References: Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="118384"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 26 17:04:51 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hUuhe-000UaU-BJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 26 May 2019 17:04:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56250 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hUuhd-0004OF-Co for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 26 May 2019 11:04:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:58512) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hUueF-00024j-Gk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 26 May 2019 11:01:20 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:45120) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hUuLM-0005y0-6b for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 26 May 2019 10:41:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3853 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1hUuLL-0005rf-Ix for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 26 May 2019 10:41:48 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Joe_Trivers--- via help-gnu-emacs on Sun, 26 May 2019 03:27:24 +0000) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:120645 Archived-At: > Date: Sun, 26 May 2019 03:27:24 +0000 > From: Joe_Trivers--- via help-gnu-emacs > > running just emacs-26.1\bin\emacs returns almost immediately with no output, and so does emacs-26.1\bin\emacs -nw. What if you type "emacs-26.1\bin\emacs -Q", does that also exit immediately? > First I downloaded and unpacked emacs-26.2-i686.zip from a mirror and it didn't work. I then tried emacs-26.2-x86_64.zip emacs-26.1-x86_64.zip from the ftp.gnu.org site, as well as the no-deps version with emacs-26-x86_64-deps unpacked on top. None of them worked. I moved the unpacked tree from \Downloads to c:\GNU but that didn't seem to help either. How did you unpack the zip files, exactly? Please describe what utility/program you used to unpack, what did you type/click/select etc., step by step.