Re: Cygwin emacs - does it work?

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Stephen Leake wrote:
> "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Miles Bader wrote:
> > > "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <address@hidden> writes:
> > > > I just out of curiosity installed Cygwin Emacs. Now I am more curious
> > > > about why this version of Emacs is there.
> > > It certainly _used_ to work just fine, and is of course quite useful for
> > > using with a cygwin installation.
> > >
> > > I've only installed it from the standard cygwin package though...
> > > [about 7 months ago]
> >
> > I just installed the cygwin Emacs for X. I have never used X. 
>
> I use this for reading email with Gnus at work, because the mail
> server requires 'starttls', which I could only get to work via Cygwin.
>
> > 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?
>
> You need to start the X server first. I use:
>
> export DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
>
> XWin -clipboard -multiwindow -multimonitors -silent-dup-error -logverbose 0 &

Thanks. That made it a bit more clear.