Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 11:14:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Harry Putnam cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Emacs from cygwin in X mode with no X running In-Reply-To: <87br3khh80.fsf@newsguy.com> Message-ID: References: <87br3khh80.fsf@newsguy.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Harry Putnam wrote: > ht@XXX.XX.XX.XX (Henry S. Thompson) writes: . Thanks. > [...] > > > This can be done easily with XEmacs. You can get an only slightly > > stale version (21.4.13) straight out of the box from XEmacs.org [1] > > (pick 'native windows'). > > > > Or you can compile your own 21.4.17 from source, but this is _not_ a > > 'straight-out-of-the-box' exercise. If you try this and have trouble, > > I'll try to dig out my config.status and other notes from the last > > time I made it all work. I _think_ the rebase problems (google > > cygwin+xemacs+rebase) have disappeared, but I may be wrong. > > Very kind of you to offer. However I'm a confirmed fsf emacs user. > Tried Xemacs several times but always returned to fsf emacs. > > Its been my tool of choice for 4-6 yrs now. Well, you could try compiling Emacs yourself and linking it against libW11 (that comes with rxvt). Most likely, this will not work, but I'm sure patches for missing functionality would be thoughtfully considered by the developers of rxvt. 'Tis a long and winding road, though. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/