Emacs No-Window goes into an infinite loop

Question

I remote into a linux machine from cygwin on windows7 via ssh -Y.

Once ssh completes, if I execute emacs the usual way (emacs), everything works fine. If I try to execute it in the console (i.e. via emacs -nw), it loads scratch buffer and hangs, without reacting to any keys. On top I see that it uses 100% of CPU, which never happened to my emacs before.

The same setup works ok on other Linux machines (same profile, same bash, same command sequence). I don't even have an idea what can be wrong. Could someone please help?

Thank you very much.

Edit XEmacs worked fine.

Answer 1

Reinstalled emacs, it worked. Still not sure what was wrong...