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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 09:07:27 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 |
On Mon, 03 Feb 2003, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Klaus Berndl <klaus.berndl@sdm.de>
> > Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> > Date: 03 Feb 2003 09:26:40 +0100
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > What can be the problem...
>
> I suspect that the problem is some kind of incompatibility between
> the Cygwin-compiled Bash/rxvt and NTEmacs: the way rxvt works is by
> opening a pipe to the program(s) it runs, and it sounds like the pipe
> it opens doesn't look as a tty to NTEmacs.
>
> > XEmacs starts fine with "xemacs -nw"...
>
> Is that a Cygwin-compiled XEmacs, per chance?
Yes, indeed.
>
> Anyway, this sort of thing should be reported to gnu.emacs.bug, not
> here.
Yes, you are right, but i was not sure if this is a bug and our explanation
tells me that this behavior can be a bug but can also be not a bug cause of
trying to run NTEmacs in a cygwin compiled terminal-program.
But next time i will report to gnu.emacs.bug....
Thanks,
Klaus
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