From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Cygwin emacs - does it work? Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:24:28 -0400 Message-ID: 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=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1218108285 16274 80.91.229.12 (7 Aug 2008 11:24:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 11:24:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Devel , Miles Bader To: "Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 07 13:25:35 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 1KR3cZ-0001Ys-Kb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:25:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46032 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KR3be-00015R-65 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:24:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KR3bZ-00015M-OS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:24:29 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KR3bX-00015A-Ev for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:24:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=38037 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KR3bX-000157-92 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:24:27 -0400 Original-Received: from qmta01.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.16]:59599) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KR3bW-0000gM-R8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:24:26 -0400 Original-Received: from OMTA01.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.11]) by QMTA01.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id zNQB1Z0040EZKEL51PQ6DV; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:24:06 +0000 Original-Received: from LM000850872 ([98.233.81.189]) by OMTA01.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id zPQR1Z00E454uzm3MPQS6a; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:24:26 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=yajN1Hf_BzAA:10 a=AMBsLFvdjaQ08X0bf5gA:9 a=TuRA5mUD58ahTIR3eqlwQF7oy4cA:4 a=MSl-tDqOz04A:10 a=MoKApwAhFBkA:10 In-Reply-To: <48986514.9020007@gmail.com> (Lennart Borgman's message of "Tue\, 05 Aug 2008 16\:35\:00 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (windows-nt) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:102153 Archived-At: "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 & -- -- Stephe