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

[Stephen Leake]

Sarir Khamsi <address@hidden> writes:

> Stephen Leake <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Sarir Khamsi <address@hidden> writes:
> >
> >> "Richard M. Heiberger" <address@hidden> writes:
> >> 
> >> > Open a cygwin window from the cygwin icon that is installed when you
> >> > install cygwin.  Then emacs -nw works very well.
> >> 
> >> Thanks, but that is not an xterm.
> >
> > Just out of curiosity, why do you care if it is an xterm? 
> 
> An xterm is what I typically work out of. The standard console window
> that bash can run in is too restrictive (eg, resizing the
> window). Also, I work between my desktop (WinXP) and an Linux box and
> xterms work for both environments.
> 
> Plus it may also be that I've been working w/ xterms for ~20 years and
> I'm crusty and don't like to change that. :-)

Well, ok. But since you are running Emacs, I thought you were implying
there was some aspect of an xterm that affected the Emacs behavior.

Since you can run Emacs directly in MS Windows, and directly in X
Windows (on either Linux or Cygwin), why do you need to run Emacs in
an Xterm?

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