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Update Emacs-related entries (new Cygwin port, details on XEmacs ports)

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David Starks-Browning 2002-11-13 00:23:18 +00:00
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@ -86,8 +86,8 @@ Just tell bash where to find it, when you type it on the command line:
@subsection How do I convert between Windows and UNIX paths?
Use the 'cygpath' utility. Type '@code{cygpath}' with no arguments to
get usage information. For example (on my installation):
Use the 'cygpath' utility. Type '@code{cygpath --help}' for
information. For example (on my installation):
@example
bash$ cygpath --windows ~/.bashrc
D:\starksb\.bashrc
@ -595,15 +595,26 @@ contents are exempt from scanning. In a default installation, this
would be @samp{@code{C:\cygwin\bin}}. Obviously, this could be
exploited by a hostile non-Cygwin program, so do this at your own risk.
@subsection How do I run bash as a shell under NT Emacs?
@subsection Is there a Cygwin port of GNU Emacs?
The Windows port of GNU Emacs (aka "NT emacs") uses the Windows command
shell by default. Also, since Emacs is not a Cygwin application, it has
no knowledge of Cygwin mounts. With those points in mind, you need to
add the following code to your ~/.emacs or ~/_emacs file in order to use
bash. This is particularly useful for the JDEE package
(@file{http://jdee.sunsite.dk/}). The following settings are for
Emacs 21.1:
Yes! It uses the X11 (@file{http://cygwin.com/xfree/}) Windows
interface. From a remote login shell, this ``emacs -nw'' works fine.
There is also a non-X11 version which just provides the text-only
terminal interface. Use Cygwin Setup to install either one (or both).
@subsection What about NT Emacs?
If you want GNU Emacs with a native Microsoft Windows interface, but
without X, then you must use the native Windows port, commonly known
as ``NT Emacs''. You get NT Emacs from any GNU mirror. It is not
available from Cygwin Setup.
NT Emacs uses the Windows command shell by default. Since it is not a
Cygwin application, it has no knowledge of Cygwin mounts. With those
points in mind, you need to add the following code to your ~/.emacs
(or ~/_emacs) file in order to use Cygwin bash. This is particularly useful
for the JDEE package (@file{http://jdee.sunsite.dk/}). The following
settings are for Emacs 21.1:
@example
;; This assumes that Cygwin is installed in C:\cygwin (the
@ -628,16 +639,17 @@ Emacs 21.1:
'comint-strip-ctrl-m)
@end example
@subsection Is there a Cygwin port of GNU Emacs?
No. If you want NT Emacs to understand Cygwin paths, get
If you want NT Emacs to understand Cygwin paths, get
cygwin-mount.el from @file{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
@file{http://www.xemacs.org/}. Using ``xemacs -nw'' from a remote
shell works fine.
Note that all of this ``just works'' if you use the Cygwin port of
Emacs from Cygwin Setup.
@subsection What about XEmacs?
For a concise description of the current situation with XEmacs, see
this message from the Cygwin mailing list:
@file{http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-11/msg00609.html}.
@subsection info error "dir: No such file or directory"