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 Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 10:39:09 +0100 Message-ID: <5751-Thu10Oct2002103909+0100-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> From: David Starks-Browning MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: emacs on cygwin In-Reply-To: <20021010022315.GB23387@redhat.com> References: <20021010021031 DOT 58993 DOT qmail AT web20010 DOT mail DOT yahoo DOT com> <20021010022315 DOT GB23387 AT redhat DOT com> On Wednesday 9 Oct 02, Christopher Faylor writes: > On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 07:10:31PM -0700, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > >I was looking at the FAQ and realized some questions need an update. > >I plan to do this. However, some of them I don't have the knowledge > >to frame a correct updated answer. One I particularly noticed was: > > > >>Is there a Cygwin port of GNU Emacs? > >> > >>No. If you want NT Emacs to understand Cygwin paths, get cygwin-mount.el from > >>http://www.emacswiki.org/elisp/index.html. > >> > >>If you want to run "emacs -nw", say from a remote login shell, you can't. (The > >>error is "emacs: standard input is not a tty".) Instead, use a Cygwin version > >>of XEmacs, from http://www.xemacs.org/. Using "xemacs -nw" from a remote shell > > > >>works fine. > > > >To be exact, I know that there is now a Cygwin version of GNU Emacs, that > >XEmacs does not have a (setup.exe) Cygwin package, and that those URLs work. > >However, I don't the status of GNU Emacs or NT Emacs in a remote login shell. > > I haven't seen David Starks-Browning (FAQ maintainer) around lately but > I suspect that he might be interested in fixing this. Indeed! I will certainly have to fix that question. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. However, I don't use the Cygwin port of Emacs (yet?), so I also do not know the status of using "emacs -nw" from a remote shell. Has anyone tried this? Does it work? Thanks, David -- 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/