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Re: 'emacs' command becomes a no-op
- From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:50:12 -0400
- Subject: Re: 'emacs' command becomes a no-op
- References: <4948BF98-4A64-4665-B3EB-F3969DAB8F84@pobox.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Chap Harrison wrote:
After bringing everything up-to-date in Cygwin (Windows Server 2003),
emacs won't run. I give the command, it thinks for half a second, and
then gives me the command prompt.
I'm also noticing different behavior from readline in a Perl script.
I'm using mintty, which got upgraded in the process.
If there's a system log somewhere, I don't know where it is, to look for
error messages.
Could anyone suggest a next step?
After starting emacs, type 'echo $?' at the shell prompt. If you get '53'
(Cygwin's equivalent to '42' ;-) ), then you're missing a DLL emacs needs.
Run 'cygcheck emacs' to find out which one and then install (or reinstall)
the package containing that DLL.
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