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From: David Robinow <drobinow@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: C-h, F1, Backspace, and splash screen
Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 18:07:33 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4eb0089f0905291507l51704c2dj7265765fdd604980@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <gvor5m$nl$1@ger.gmane.org>

On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Rupert Swarbrick <rswarbrick@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>>  If you have cygwin, you have Windows.
>>>  If you have Windows, use the native Emacs.
>>
>> This is a matter of personal preference.  For the kinds of things that
>> I do, I find it more convenient to use cygwin emacs.
>
> An example: using slime + sbcl on Windows. Works _much_ better running
> sbcl from cygwin, but then native slime passes all the wrong pathnames
> etc. and sbcl gets very confused unless you use the cygwin emacs.
>
> Presumably interacting with other cygwin utilities works similarly.
>
> Rupert
>
Yikes, you've reminded me that I've actually used cygwin emacs for
just that reason.
Old age must be causing memory failure.
I take back everything bad I've ever said about cygwin emacs.




      reply	other threads:[~2009-05-29 22:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-28 16:26 C-h, F1, Backspace, and splash screen Ken Brown
2009-05-28 18:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-05-28 18:34   ` Ken Brown
2009-05-28 21:01     ` Stefan Monnier
2009-05-28 21:19       ` Ken Brown
2009-05-29  1:32         ` Stefan Monnier
2009-05-29  4:17           ` Kevin Rodgers
2009-05-29 11:48           ` Ken Brown
2009-05-28 22:44     ` David Robinow
2009-05-28 23:06       ` Ken Brown
2009-05-29 14:23         ` Rupert Swarbrick
2009-05-29 22:07           ` David Robinow [this message]

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