From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Arash Esbati Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#55930: 29.0.50; Removing some items from Emacs FAQ for MS Windows Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2022 20:25:00 +0200 Message-ID: <86fsk9buyr.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="16863"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 To: 55930@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 12 20:26:14 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1o0SHt-0004AH-Ve for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 12 Jun 2022 20:26:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54022 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o0SHs-0003yz-FI for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 12 Jun 2022 14:26:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:47056) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o0SHj-0003w8-AB for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jun 2022 14:26:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:34341) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o0SHj-0007SK-26 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jun 2022 14:26:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1o0SHi-0001cC-U7 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jun 2022 14:26:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Arash Esbati Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2022 18:26:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: report 55930 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-Debbugs-Original-To: emacs-bugs Original-Received: via spool by submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B.16550583356132 (code B ref -1); Sun, 12 Jun 2022 18:26:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at submit) by debbugs.gnu.org; 12 Jun 2022 18:25:35 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56463 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1o0SH6-0001af-Ti for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jun 2022 14:25:34 -0400 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]:33212) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1o0SH4-0001aR-Pq for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jun 2022 14:25:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:46962) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o0SH4-0003p7-Ju for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jun 2022 14:25:22 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:50466) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o0SH4-0007Kk-CS for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jun 2022 14:25:22 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=MIME-Version:Date:Subject:To:From:in-reply-to: references; bh=AepReIG6GjdbydTdDAVJNB8BsUjlwlbNuEFwBDxuSlc=; b=UqBIkJjzJwtPrA ky8zfKYxn61Im4kWACgrxbFl5L73X8TCLp3+AVlcOcy0ZfD8sm8ARU2/epKKRiiTtwi8exDZmiLBS iWPYp2V8rOETFEtFOHHzspn/F2Pe6BKUuJ9ZMVkJKh4w/YikeRRhzHzqlTfVNklXG3/23a4S2w8g9 8FKWx+uL2MWxfyfa90U5JlPfNkHMey/iWQstioIBNZ4qE8e6Zd2EsCzSkcR6XVc8EnmdWq+z4iyGv kE7BugaPH9k0/G/ZxzFPblsBxPJ94LOeq3bI+KwOrghoa/NC/3kScMS6YR4okvKrd2sMQZXEFAb/7 jq420AMv7Oe+iotYh0Yw==; Original-Received: from p4fe3ee56.dip0.t-ipconnect.de ([79.227.238.86]:56112 helo=MUTANT) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o0SH3-0007fH-Vd for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jun 2022 14:25:22 -0400 X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:234368 Archived-At: Hi all, I'd like to ask it makes sense to remove some items from FAQ for MS Windows in "11 Other useful ports"[1], namely: 11.4 UWIN http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/uwin/ UWIN is another POSIX emulation environment, like Cygwin and MSYS, that provides a large number of ported tools. The shell used by UWIN is ksh, the Korn shell. The link is gone. I did a quick search but could not find a replacement. 11.5 GnuWin32 http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/ GnuWin32 provides precompiled native Windows ports of a wide selection of Free software and libraries. Unfortunately, the ports are outdated. Outdated means last announcement is from 2010, the project looks dormant. Maybe an entry for Msys2 should be added? I can send a proposal, but before that, I'd like to know how people think about it. Best, Arash Footnotes: [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/efaq-w32.html#Other-useful-ports