From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rainer Stengele Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs on Windows XP -> Cygwin Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 13:19:45 +0100 Organization: ODN Onlinedienst Nordbayern GmbH -- http://www.odn.de/ Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1194957651 14777 80.91.229.12 (13 Nov 2007 12:40:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 12:40:51 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 13 13:40:56 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Irv4Y-0004oq-3Z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Nov 2007 13:40:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Irv4L-0003HU-Qx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Nov 2007 07:40:41 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!newsfeed.freenet.de!ecngs!feeder2.ecngs.de!feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!noris.net!news.odn.de!not-for-mail User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 36 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 212.34.176.74 Original-X-Complaints-To: news@odn.de Original-X-Trace: news.odn.de 1194956380 212.34.176.74 (Tue, 13 Nov 2007 13:19:40 MET) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 13:19:40 MET Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:153763 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:49208 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii schrieb: >> From: Chris McMahan >> Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:09:38 -0500 >> >> >> I wouldn't recommend that. I am running Windows XP with Cygwin, and >> I'm using the XP (w32) version of Emacs and the cygwin tools without >> any problems. > > I wouldn't recommend doing what you do, unless the OP likes to > "tinker" with all kinds of Emacs options and optional packages, such > as cygwin-mount. There are subtle incompatibilities between Cygwin > and native Windows programs (file-name conventions, console and pipe > I/O, text vs. binary I/O, signal delivery, etc.), so someone who's > used for things "to just work", like they do on GNU/Linux, is well > advised to limit him/herself to either only Cygwin programs or only > native Windows programs. > >> The cygwin version of emacs is (AFAIK) an older version. > > One can find a pointer to the latest one by searching the archives of > the Cygwin mailing list. > >> To get windowing support, you must run the Cygwin xserver. > > True, but where's the problem with that? an X server is available as > part of the Cygwin download. > > Is tramp running under cygwin without problems? As far as I know the w32 emacs cannot run tramp successfully. I do run emacsw32 without any problems and also use cygwin tools a lot. rainer