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Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 10:39:09 +0100
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From: David Starks-Browning <starksb AT ebi DOT ac DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: emacs on cygwin
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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


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