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Re: starting Emacs 21 in a terminal
From: |
Klaus Berndl |
Subject: |
Re: starting Emacs 21 in a terminal |
Date: |
04 Feb 2003 18:02:38 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 |
On 04 Feb 2003, Benjamin Riefenstahl wrote:
> Hi Klaus,
>
>
> Klaus Berndl <klaus.berndl@sdm.de> writes:
>
> > I'm using NTEmacs 21.1 and cygwin-bash plus cygwin rxvt (a
> > xterm-emulation).
> >
> > If i call on the command-line "emacs -nw" to start Emacs with
> > no-windows then i always get the error: "emacs: standard input is
> > not a tty" and Emacs doesn't start.
>
> IIRC, there is a Cygwin environment option CYGWIN=tty, that might
> help.
No, i have this setting - it doesn't matter...
>
> > What can be the problem...XEmacs starts fine with "xemacs -nw"...
>
> The basic problem is that there is no documented way in Windows to
> create a pseudo-tty like in Unix. So if you are not using the regular
> NT console, Cygwin and rxvt have to play tricks, and even than it
> doesn't always work.
It doesn't work regardless if using the regular NT console or Cygwin rxvt...
I think Eli had the best explanation of the problem...i should write a bug
report...
Thanks,
Klaus
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