Using emacs in a terminal window

Sat Jun 6 19:44:00 GMT 2009

 > I've answered several questions in recent weeks about
 > how to use emacs in a terminal window. To try to clarify
 > this, I plan to put some suggestions in
 > /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/emacs.README the next time I
 > update the emacs packages. The current draft is appended
 > below. Please let me know if you see any inaccuracies or if
 > anything could be stated more clearly.
Here is an additional item related to terminal-mode Emacs that
might be worth mentioning:
 A better display of colors, underlining, etc. can be obtained
 in the terminal mode Emacs by making use of the terminfo file
 that is included in the Emacs distribution:
 /usr/share/emacs/23.0.92/etc/e/eterm-color
 This file (eterm-color) can be accessed by copying it to the
 directory /usr/share/terminfo/e/ (which the user may need to
 create). The terminal capabilities are then available if
 terminal-mode Emacs is invoked with some variation of:
 env TERM=Eterm-color emacs ...
 If the user has the Cygwin version of the 'terminfo' package
 installed, then even more terminal capabilities are available.
 This package provides the files 'Eterm', 'Eterm-88color', and
 'Eterm-256color' in the directory /usr/share/terminfo/45/. To
 make use of the 'Eterm-256color' terminal capabilities, for
 example, issue some variation of the following commands:
 $ cd /usr/share/terminfo/45/
 $ ln -fs Eterm-256color Eterm-color
 $ cd
 $ env TERM=Eterm-color emacs ...
 An alias can also be defined to help:
 $ alias edit="env TERM=Eterm-color /usr/bin/emacs-nox --no-splash"
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