Re: Cygwin emacs - does it work?

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

David De La Harpe Golden wrote:
> Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote:
>
> > I just installed the cygwin Emacs for X. I have never used X. When I try
> > to start Emacs now I get the rather incomprehensible:
> >
> >   $ emacs
> >   emacs: Cannot connect to X server localhost:0.0.
> >   Check the DISPLAY environment variable or use `-d'.
> >   Also use the `xhost' program to verify that it is set to permit
> >   connections from your machine.
> >
> > What?
>
> Did you start the X server first?  It probably isn't set up to
> autostart.   (Also, you may have to install the X server via
> cygwin setup.exe if you haven't already)
>
> IIRC (okay, I googled) recent cygwin provides a batch file to start it
> for you. It may still be
> in c:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\startxwin.bat
>
> Run it if it's there.

Thanks David, that worked. And the (old) Emacs for X could be started. 
However it is version 21.