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Re: emacs 21.3 does work while 22.1 works: Why 21.3 is default in cygwin setup
- From: Tatsuro MATSUOKA <tmacchant2 at yahoo dot co dot jp>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Cc: me <matsuoka at nuce dot nagoya-u dot ac dot jp>
- Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:49:46 +0900 (JST)
- Subject: Re: emacs 21.3 does work while 22.1 works: Why 21.3 is default in cygwin setup
- Reply-to: matsuoka at nuce dot nagoya-u dot ac dot jp
Hello
--- Brian Dessent <brian@dessent.net> wrote:
> Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:
>
> > After that I cannot execute
> > $ emacs
> > Nothing happend
> > Only
> > $ emacs -nw
> > worked.
> > This happens both in home and university.
>
> That can happen either a) you have $DISPLAY set but you aren't running
> an X11 server or b) you are running an X11 server but $DISPLAY is not
> set correctly to refer to it. In either case emacs will sit there
> trying to connect to something that doesn't exist. It should time out
> after several minutes though, which you can check to see if that is the
> case. If so, fix your setting of DISPLAY.
>
> The other possibility is the issue of a rebased cygncurses7 that causes
> emacs to go into a 100% cpu spinloop at startup, for some as-yet
> unidentified reason. However if emacs -nw works then that more or less
> rules out this possibility.
>
This time
a) was not the case. I set $DISPLAY.
The gnuplot, xemacs, grace and Xfig worked worked from the same prompt.
That was mysterious. Perhaps noboby answers it.
If I install again, they might work but I do not want to spend time because
emacs 22.1 works well.
Thank you.
Tatsuro
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