[h-e-w] Re: Emacs in an xterm

[johnwrussell]

> I would sometimes like to launch an Emacs session inside an xterm
> (from the Cygwin distro) with the following command (at a bash
> prompt):
>
> $ emacs -nw -q someFile
>
> but get the error message "emacs: standard input is not a tty." 

Do you really have to use the -nw option?  I was able to reproduce the problem  
you describe with the command above, but then I just tried the following 
command 
inside a Cygwin xterm window...

$ emacs -q

...and it started up Emacs for Windows very nicely.

Cheers,

John