Setting up emacs on Cygwin

Question

I'm currently trying out Cygwin. I am trying to get emacs to open in terminal mode. When I run $ emacs -nw through mintty with the Cygwin shell. I get bash: emacs: command not found. I am running Windows Vista SP2 if that helps. I think you need to edit the environment variables but I don't know what to do then.

Please help! Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

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Updates:

1. This is what comes up when I run $ echo $PATH:

   $ echo $PATH
   

   /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Common Files/Microsoft Shared/Windows Live:/cygdrive/c/Windows/system32:/cygdrive/c/Windows:/cygdrive/c/Windows/System32/Wbem:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Common Files/Adobe/AGL:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/ATI Technologies/ATI.ACE/Core-Static:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Common Files/Roxio Shared/10.0/DLLShared:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Common Files/RoxioShared/DLLShared:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Common Files/Roxio Shared/10.0/DLLShared:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Intel/WiFi/bin:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Common Files/Intel/WirelessCommon:/cygdrive/c/Windows/System32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Common Files/Ulead Systems/MPEG:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Windows Live/Shared:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/QuickTime/QTSystem:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Microsoft SQL Server/100/Tools/Binn:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Microsoft SQL Server/100/DTS/Binn:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/gtk2/bin:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/mlt/bin:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Intel/WiFi/bin:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Common Files/Intel/WirelessCommon:/cygdrive/c/Python27:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Console:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/OpenLibraries/bin

Answer 1

If you want to use emacs -nw, I'm pretty sure you're going to need to install the cygwin emacs (using the cygwin installer).

If you want to use some other emacs for Windows (I don't think -nw will work then), then you need to add the path to that emacs to your PATH, e.g.

export PATH=${PATH}:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/<path_to_emacs_dir>.

If you want that to be permanent, then you can add it to your ".bashrc" file.