From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: have installed cygwin, & "its" emacs. dired shows only subtree, no "up" Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 22:10:06 -0700 Message-ID: <00a201c91c71$7ba36dc0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> References: <9c7ab644-18fe-478f-9516-6b8f051aee7a@p31g2000prf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1222060294 6510 80.91.229.12 (22 Sep 2008 05:11:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 05:11:34 +0000 (UTC) To: , Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 22 07:12:30 2008 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 1Khdin-0005mc-6J for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Sep 2008 07:12:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43361 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Khdhl-0005Wu-5L for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Sep 2008 01:11:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KhdhC-0005W5-UF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Sep 2008 01:10:51 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Khdh9-0005VG-U8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Sep 2008 01:10:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=53412 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Khdh9-0005V4-Bw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Sep 2008 01:10:47 -0400 Original-Received: from agminet01.oracle.com ([141.146.126.228]:56956) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Khdh9-0005qW-0u for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Sep 2008 01:10:47 -0400 Original-Received: from agmgw2.us.oracle.com (agmgw2.us.oracle.com [152.68.180.213]) by agminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id m8M59p93027412; Mon, 22 Sep 2008 00:09:51 -0500 Original-Received: from acsmt706.oracle.com (acsmt706.oracle.com [141.146.40.84]) by agmgw2.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.0/Switch-3.2.0) with ESMTP id m8M59ox5008309; Sun, 21 Sep 2008 23:09:50 -0600 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/24.23.165.218) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Mon, 22 Sep 2008 05:09:50 +0000 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: Thread-Index: AckcbqeQDJTK+1JsT9C7bVxbwJ7prgAAXx9g X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3350 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 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:57880 Archived-At: > I don't know what's better in your situation, but for years > now I've made Cygwin an integral part of how I use Windows, > but have always used the native Windows Emacs (NTEmacs). > The original reason for doing so was that Cygwin Emacs had > problems running in a command Window (without running > Cygwin X), and I had no other reasons for running the Cygwin > X server. Also (at least at the time), the Cygwin version of Emacs > lagged behind the current version of NTEmacs. Using the > cygwin-mount package with NTEmacs gave the best of both worlds. > Nowadays, I'm running the Cygwin X server for other reasons, > and the situation may have changed, but I think it's > still an advantage to use the native version, if for no other > reason than if a problem occurs, one can ask on this newgroup > directly, rather than figuring out whether the question is more > appropiate for the Cygwin mailing list. FWIW, I second that - I too use Cygwin with native Windows Emacs. I use these two libraries. They are sufficient for me (in GNU Emacs 20, 21, 22, 23). http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/cygwin-mount.el http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/setup-cygwin.el (when (and (eq system-type 'windows-nt) (require 'cygwin-mount nil t)) (require 'setup-cygwin))