I have now solved the problem by explicitly removing /usr/bin/emacs before re-installing it using Cygwin Setup. Now it indeed became a symlink (to /etc/alternatives/emacs).
Ronald On Fri, Jan 17, 2020, at 17:16, Ken Brown wrote: > On 1/17/2020 10:33 AM, Ronald Fischer wrote: > > When trying to run `emacs`, I get > > > > (on zsh) : zsh: exec format error: emacs > > (on bash): bash: /usr/bin/emacs: cannot execute binary file: Exec format > > error > > Are you sure Cygwin's emacs is the first one in your path? Cygwin's > /usr/bin/emacs should be a symlink: > > $ ls -l /usr/bin/emacs > lrwxrwxrwx 1 kbrown-admin None 23 2019-03-21 18:11 /usr/bin/emacs -> > /etc/alternatives/emacs* > > Ken > > -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > > -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
