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

[H. Dieter Wilhelm]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: "H. Dieter Wilhelm" <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de>
>> Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2022 17:37:17 +0100
>> 
>> 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?
>
> Is this when invoking Emacs from mintty (or what's the default
> terminal program in MSYS2 is called these days)?

yes, mintty (3.5.2)

> If so, I think this is a question for MSYS2 folks or maybe for Cygwin
> folks.  Basically, I believe stdin is a pipe in that case, and Emacs
> cannot cope with that in -nw mode.

Thanks

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Best wishes
H. Dieter Wilhelm
Zwingenberg, Germany