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Re: Running Emacs in an MSYS2 shell (or terminal?)


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Running Emacs in an MSYS2 shell (or terminal?)
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2022 19:02:52 +0200

> From: "H. Dieter Wilhelm" <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de>
> Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2022 17:37:17 +0100
> 
> when starting Emacs with
> 
>   $ ./emacs.exe -nw
> 
> it says
> 
>   emacs: standard input is not a tty.
> 
> and "emacsclient.exe -nw" is creating a new frame.
> 
> What can I do to use emacs.exe or emacsclient.exe in such a shell
> without starting a new frame?

Is this when invoking Emacs from mintty (or what's the default
terminal program in MSYS2 is called these days)?  If so, I think this
is a question for MSYS2 folks or maybe for Cygwin folks.  Basically, I
believe stdin is a pipe in that case, and Emacs cannot cope with that
in -nw mode.



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