From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Will Parsons Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: have installed cygwin, & "its" emacs. dired shows only subtree, no "up" Date: 21 Sep 2008 17:58:01 GMT Message-ID: References: <9c7ab644-18fe-478f-9516-6b8f051aee7a@p31g2000prf.googlegroups.com> Reply-To: ellenophilos@yahoo.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1222058992 3731 80.91.229.12 (22 Sep 2008 04:49:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 04:49:52 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 22 06:50:49 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 1KhdNn-00025a-9r for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Sep 2008 06:50:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59172 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KhdMl-0000Hy-C6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Sep 2008 00:49:43 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 34 Original-X-Trace: individual.net 5GneVS1Nqr6ZvY1iCt3bpgJf+qQhUopi2sFYAagiDw9ymTn4RI Cancel-Lock: sha1:5NRoBzI+bWZD0ja4jIiwDHydldw= User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1 (FreeBSD) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:162532 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 00:49:22 -0400 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:57879 Archived-At: David Combs wrote: > In article <9c7ab644-18fe-478f-9516-6b8f051aee7a@p31g2000prf.googlegroups.com>, > rustom wrote: >>On Sep 21, 6:45 am, "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" >> wrote: >>> > Any idea how to refer to the sandisk? >>> >>> It gets a drive letter, at least on my pc. >> >>Native emacs (for windows) is better than cygwin emacs > > Well, OK. > > Please, though, (so I can convince her to download yet > another humongous emacs ("ntemacs" is what you mean?) > onto her computer), please give a few reasons for > saying that. 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. -- Will