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I have question regarding when running emacs with cygwin. I have installed emacs which comes with cygwin. How can I get cygwin to run emacs in its own window instead from the cygwin's console window.

I like how it is in ubuntu when I run emacs from the terminal it will open emacs's GUI.

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I'm curious: Why don't you install the windows version of Emacs? – jgomo3 Nov 1 '11 at 22:08
That's certainly an option, but if you work mostly in the Cygwin environment it's useful to have an Emacs that understands Cygwin-style paths (/home/username/foo.txt vs. C:\cygwin\home\username\foo.txt). – Keith Thompson Nov 1 '11 at 22:15
Because cygwin gives me the feel of unix in windows box. And your response should be a comment rather than an answer. – starcorn Nov 1 '11 at 22:16
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Need to have an X-server running and install the x-version of emacs, cygwin includes both (if you select the correct packages during installation).

The X-server is probably started with the command startx once it's installed.

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Is it necessary to install xemacs? latest version of xemacs is only v21, while emacs is v23. The emacs version i'm running on ubuntu is also v23 which can open up in a separate window – starcorn Jan 5 '11 at 20:34
@klw - No xemacs is a different flavour of emacs (another very similar program). It's not emacs with the X-libraries included. The namning is a bit confusing. – Nifle Jan 5 '11 at 20:36
@klw - You want the emacs-X11 packages – Nifle Jan 5 '11 at 20:40
@Nifle - i got that installed, but I can't find the package for x-server. could possible give me a name for it as well? btw, you don't happen to know if Xming can be used instead for cygwin's X-server? – starcorn Jan 5 '11 at 20:49
@klw - Another x-server is perfectly fine, that's what I have used most of the time, but a quick look at the cygwin packages I think you want the X11 package called xorg-server – Nifle Jan 5 '11 at 20:56
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