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Re: How to run GNU Emacs from Windows icon


On 6/2/2009 7:18 AM, Ken Brown wrote:
On 6/2/2009 5:30 AM, Marc Girod wrote:
I can also start a Cygwin window, and run GNU emacs there (with a -nw
option).
It starts, although doesn't work well. The keyboard bindings are weird for a
start (e.g. C-x C-c gives in fact C-x C-g, which forces you to exit with M-x
kill-emacs).
I'm sure this was discussed already.

You need to have 'tty' in your CYGWIN environment variable in order to prevent this from happening. But even then, you'll find that many keystrokes don't work as expected. If you want to run emacs in a terminal (rather than under X), you'll get much better results with mintty or rxvt.

But none of this addresses the OP's original problem:


emacs: Terminal type cygwin is not defined.

My guess is that this is a terminfo issue. Try installing the terminfo0 package.


Chuck, the ancient-but-still-current emacs requires libncurses7; the latter requires terminfo, but I think it should require terminfo0 instead.

Ken

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