From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chris McMahan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs on Windows XP -> Cygwin Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:09:38 -0500 Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Message-ID: References: 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 1194918060 10582 80.91.229.12 (13 Nov 2007 01:41:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 01:41:00 +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 02:41:04 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 1Irkly-0004e8-Ri for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Nov 2007 02:41:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Irklm-0006QD-I4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:40:50 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!panix!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 48 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: panix5.panix.com Original-X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1194916172 24128 166.84.1.5 (13 Nov 2007 01:09:32 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 01:09:32 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:r/k0KfwYypBuwcvOFJhn8w8tdok= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:153733 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:49183 Archived-At: 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. The cygwin version of emacs is (AFAIK) an older version. To get windowing support, you must run the Cygwin xserver. You might look at an emacs installation that specializes in getting emacs, cygwin and win32 talking together very nicely. It's the EmacsW32 project http://www.ourcomments.org/Emacs/EmacsW32.html I would highly recommend you install this version. It's the easiest, most painless way to get the latest Emacs working under XP. - Chris Raimund Kohl-Füchsle writes: > Hello, > > as mentioned recently I have a Thinkpad with Windows XP running. I > installed emacs 22.x on it the way I read it someplace on the internet > ... not under C.\Programme but under C.\emacs instead. Works ... only > printing from within emacs does not work. However, now I found out > there is Cygwin ... well, looks great so far. Now here the question: > AFAIU Cygwin is "best choice" if one is wanting to have XP working > Linux.like plus having some Xnix tools too. To enjoy Cygwin, am I to > deinstall emacs the way I have it now, then to install Cygwin and > reinstall emacs only this time as a Cygwin package? Does this sound > reasonable? I don't mind much installing/reinstalling ... as long as > it is the best way to have all things running greatly ... :-) > > Thanx in advance > > ray > > > > -- (. .) =ooO=(_)=Ooo===================================== Chris McMahan | first_initiallastname@one.dot.net =================================================