X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 12:54:16 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Using emacs in a terminal window Message-ID: <20090605165416.GD5103@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <4A292BCD DOT 3060901 AT cornell DOT edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4A292BCD.3060901@cornell.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 10:29:33AM -0400, Ken Brown wrote: >I've answered several questions in recent weeks about how to use emacs >in a terminal window. To try to clarify this, I plan to put some >suggestions in /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/emacs.README the next time I update >the emacs packages. The current draft is appended below. Please let me >know if you see any inaccuracies or if anything could be stated more >clearly. Hmm. You know I wonder if it's time that we set up a per-package FAQ on cygwin.com. It seems like the slightly more than clueless people sometimes go to the Cygwin FAQ for help on individual packages so maybe we could have a FAQ for things like emacs, bash, ssh there. At the very least we could make the package documentation available. cgf -- 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/