Re: Cygwin emacs - does it work?

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

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. 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?