Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Path: not-for-mail From: Joe Buehler Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] GNU emacs 21.2-4 released Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 13:22:20 -0400 Lines: 48 Message-ID: <3D5A91CC.1000509@hekimian.com> References: <20020814160935 DOT 6001E1BB3A AT redhat DOT com> NNTP-Posting-Host: hekimian.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1029345680 32287 206.205.138.10 (14 Aug 2002 17:21:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet AT main DOT gmane DOT org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 17:21:20 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Don Dwiggins wrote: > Just for clarification, I'd like to see if my understanding is correct: > - The non-X-windows version will only run in a Cygwin "terminal" window. It will run in anything that supports termcap-style output. The cygwin terminal is one. Another one is xterm. Another way is a real terminal (like a vt100) connected via a serial link to your box. It should work in any Windows terminal emulation window if you use a proper termcap entry for emacs. Speaking of which, I should probably switch emacs to use terminfo, since there are a lot more terminal entries available. > - The X-windows version requires installation of the XFree packages; this > version will work similarly to NTEmacs, including multiple frames, etc. Yes. It requires at the least several X11 libraries that are provided by the XFree-bin package (I think it is). It looks identical to a UNIX version. > And a question or two: > - Will the X-windows version work with gnuclient (or equivalent) to allow > things like associations with file types? I don't know what gnuclient is. If you configure your Windows box correctly, you can bring emacs up from any application, be it a Cygwin app or a Windows app, and it should work correctly. > - Are there restrictions or awkwardness in accessing non-Cygwin-mounted > directories/file systems? There shouldn't be. Emacs is using the Cygwin DLL to access things, so it sees Cygwin mount points, which normal windows apps don't, but you can access via drive letters and UNC paths if you like -- that's just normal Cygwin functionality. > - Any other salient operational differences with NTEmacs? Undump is not supported yet. I think there are some cases where a native windows command will not output correctly when it is run inside an inferior shell window. That's a Cygwin thing I think. I am not a heavy NTEmacs user, so maybe someone else would care to comment. Joe Buehler -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/