Comments on: GNU Emacs on Cygwin

By: Grant

Grant — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:31:21 +0000

Ben:

The “command not found” thing is the shell’s way of telling you that it can not find XWin.exe. For example:

rettkeg@RETGRA-34-00-09:~>foo
bash: foo: command not found

In step #3 above, XWin.exe should have been installed (along with a number of other things to support X).

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 12:17:54 +0000

Parts 5 and onwards. Could you maybe explain it a little more?

Why when I write “XWin -multiwindow &” does the window say “& bash: XWin: command not found”?

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By: Grant

Grant — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 04:47:33 +0000

Re #6, why did I assume the reader wouldn’t want to type that?! Thanks for the nudge.

By: Geoff

Geoff — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 02:57:22 +0000

6. Close this terminal and open a new one

What you want to do is re-read your bashrc file I assume? You can also do that with ‘source .bashrc’ from the prompt.

I do run emacs on bare windows though, I like having the context menu ‘Edit in Emacs’ and things like that. Although I also have cygwin installed, so I might have to give this a try.