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On 22/02/2013 2:22 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: > Ken Brown writes: >> It's hard to know what people's preferences will be. I gave emacs-X11 >> the highest priority for two reasons: >> >> * It's been the only GUI version of emacs on Cygwin for many years, so >> making it the default doesn't change what people are used to. >> >> * It's the build you get by default if you don't override it with >> configure options. > These are undisputedly very good reasons. In some ways I hate to admit > that, but I find I can often avoid to start X11 and the associated > memory churn simply because I now have emacs-w32. Just the experience > of one user, nothing more. Hehe. Mintty + emacs + xterm-mouse-mode did that for me a while back... all I use X for now is the occasional gnuplot session. That said... >> Maybe I should supply a script that lets users easily change the >> priority, something like the scripts set-gcc-default-*.sh that Dave >> Korn provided for gcc. > That would be even better, yes. And perhaps make that a point in the > next announcement so hopefully more people are aware of it. It isn't > difficult to change the priorities once you know that emacs is in fact > using the alternatives system. ... this does indeed seem like a good idea for those who prefer GUI over TUI. Ryan -- 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
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