S Gupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am at home now, and if I have my display environment
>variable set to: ${HOST}:0.0 or :0
>and if I have the program "Cygwin/XFree86 rl" open in
>the background, emacs opens up in the XFree program
>and not the current window. (If I do not have the
>XFree program open, then I get an error saying I can't
>connect to X server)
This is expected behavior. This has been discussed many times before. It should be
in the archives.
>
>For some reason the above only works in tcsh; the
>other shells all seem to open up emacs in the same
>window.
You probably have an emacs function defined in a shell startup file (e.g.
~/.bashrc). Examples have been posted here several times.
>Does anyone know what causes the cygwin emacs to open
>up in XFree instead of the current window?
That's how it's compiled.
>
>It has stopped doing this on my computer at work (I
>think it was a result of my reinstalling cygwin emacs
>or maybe something else that got changed in the
>process of running the cygwin setup), and I'm
>wondering what has to be changed so it does it again.
Include "tty" in your CYGWIN environment variable.
Type "emacs -nw" instead of "emacs"
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