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Re: Running Emacs in an MSYS2 shell (or terminal?)


From: Óscar Fuentes
Subject: Re: Running Emacs in an MSYS2 shell (or terminal?)
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2022 18:51:14 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux)

"H. Dieter Wilhelm" <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> writes:

> when starting Emacs with
>
>   $ ./emacs.exe -nw
>
> it says
>
>   emacs: standard input is not a tty.
>
> and "emacsclient.exe -nw" is creating a new frame.
>
> What can I do to use emacs.exe or emacsclient.exe in such a shell
> without starting a new frame?

MSYS2/Cygwin console is not a proper console as far as windows "native"
executables are concerned. If you insist on running MinGW-w64 Emacs on
it, try this:

$ pacman -S winpty
$ winpty ./emacs -nw




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