Cygwin xemacs 21.4.14 fonts broken

[Edwin Goei]

Edwin Goei wrote:

> Andy Piper wrote:
> 
>> At 01:44 AM 2/17/2004, Edwin Goei wrote:
>>
>>> bash shell works but starting it directly from an explorer window 
>>> causes the dired problems I described (see below).  I think I read 
>>> about this somewhere, but can't find it, it's late and I have to go 
>>> to work tomorrow, so I'm going to sleep now.  I tried to search for 
>>> it but don't understand windows enough to know what the problem is.
>>
>>
>>
>> What happens if you set CYGWIN=tty in your environment before starting 
>> XEmacs from explorer?
> 
> 
> Thanks for the response, but there is no change.  I set CYGWIN=tty via 
> the user environment tab in Windows XP.  I start xemacs 21.4.13 from 
> windows explorer and in *scratch*, I run:
> 
> (getenv "CYGWIN")
> "tty"
> (dired "/usr")
> 
> This results in a Dired buffer called "usr" with the following contents:
> 
>   /usr:
>   ls: File or directory "/usr/." is not found
> 
> I also tried it using the normal key bindings, but called the function 
> above to help debug.  Any ideas?
> 
> My goal is to create a shortcut to start XEmacs directly.  As a 
> workaround, I have to run cygwin.bat and then run XEmacs to get things 
> to work.  This used to work fine on my old PC, but no longer works with 
> my new PC using cygwin 1.5.7 and the latest cygwin xemacs.org installer 
> version.

Actually, I just deleted my windows CYGWIN environment setting and found 
that the "CYGWIN=tty" is already set.

-Edwin