From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gary Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Need help installing NTemacs -- no evident README or INSTALL file Date: Sat, 08 May 2010 17:52:49 +0200 Message-ID: <83iq6ytmpa.fsf@garydjones.name> References: <7edd3618-2f6f-4b64-afe2-b2e162eeb7ea@o8g2000yqo.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1273334013 9925 80.91.229.12 (8 May 2010 15:53:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 15:53:33 +0000 (UTC) To: Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 08 17:53:32 2010 connect(): No such file or directory 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OAmLL-0002w1-Ca for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 May 2010 17:53:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46709 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OAmLK-0000hF-Uu for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 May 2010 11:53:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1OAmKr-0000hA-7M for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 May 2010 11:53:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=59993 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OAmKo-0000fe-Gi for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 May 2010 11:53:00 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OAmKn-0006y4-6y for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 May 2010 11:52:58 -0400 Original-Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.152]:13687) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OAmKm-0006xT-8C for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 May 2010 11:52:57 -0400 Original-Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 22so283524fge.12 for ; Sat, 08 May 2010 08:52:53 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.87.76.7 with SMTP id d7mr5905364fgl.65.1273333972719; Sat, 08 May 2010 08:52:52 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (77-58-236-72.dclient.hispeed.ch [77.58.236.72]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e20sm1147996fga.26.2010.05.08.08.52.51 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 08 May 2010 08:52:51 -0700 (PDT) Mail-Followup-To: Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (David Combs's message of "Thu, 6 May 2010 23:51:38 +0000 (UTC)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (cygwin) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:73586 Archived-At: David Combs writes: > I recall from last summer downloading cygwin, and checking "emacs" as > one of the programs to include along with it. When I ran it, > it was emacs all right, but it came up in only that small black > and white "dos window", miserable. That hasn't been true for some years. At least not necessarily so. Just select one or more extra terminal packages (mintty is good.. no.. excellent) and you can have colour and the like. Add the X packages and you can have mouse usage and so on as well (AFAIK - I don't use that myself). And all with the benefit of *n*x-alike tools to support it. -- Gary