X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_RCVD_UNTRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_NEUTRAL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <5127C730.6050601@cs.utoronto.ca> Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 14:29:52 -0500 From: Ryan Johnson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130107 Thunderbird/17.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: emacs*-24.2.93-2 (TEST) References: <5124C565.7000206@cornell.edu> <5125DFAA.6040104@gmail.com> <51260347.4010501@cornell.edu> <512774B4.6090504@cornell.edu> <87y5egnogg.fsf@Rainer.invalid> In-Reply-To: <87y5egnogg.fsf@Rainer.invalid> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 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