From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Zhongtao Zhu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs or xemacs? Date: 12 Sep 2002 17:14:38 +0800 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1031821985 2119 127.0.0.1 (12 Sep 2002 09:13:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 09:13:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Klaus Berndl Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17pQ23-0000Xv-00 for ; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 11:13:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17pQ2B-0002uB-00; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 05:13:11 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17pQ1r-0002tK-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 05:12:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17pQ1o-0002sr-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 05:12:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.tsinghua.edu.cn ([166.111.8.18]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17pQ1n-0002sj-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 05:12:48 -0400 Original-Received: (eyou send program); Thu, 12 Sep 2002 17:09:26 +0800 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO zhongtao.tsinghua.edu.cn) (unknown@166.111.233.1) by 166.111.8.18 with SMTP; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 17:09:26 +0800 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 30 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:1355 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:1355 Klaus Berndl writes: > On 11 Sep 2002, Jochen K=FCpper wrote: >=20 > > On 11 Sep 2002 10:34:06 +0200 Klaus Berndl wrote: > >=20=20 > > Klaus> AFAIK this not correct: XEmacs has this nifty net-installer > > Klaus> ported from Cygwin to the needs of XEmacs whereas GNU Emacs > > Klaus> must still be installed by downloading one big archive > > Klaus> (regardless of source-distrib or precompiled binaries), > > Klaus> extracing it, reading the READMe and so on... > >=20=20 > > Actually Emacs is (3 packages) in the standard Cygwin install nowadays= ... >=20 > Oooops... AFAIK there is no official release port of GNU Emacs to Cygwin.= .. > Is this not true anymore?? Is there now an official port of GNU Emacs 21.= X to > cygwin (downloadable binaries build with cygwin and installable by the cy= gwin > setup)? >=20 > Ciao,klaus I did find a cygwin release, in a local mirror ftp site, which contains Emacs-21.2-7 of both its source and pre-complied binaries. The cygwin as a whole can be net-installed by a setup.exe, though the default options are set to exclude the Emacs. You may check it by visiting the wet site of RedHat. --=20 Zhongtao Zhu Tel: +86 10 6278 2266 Department of Computer, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China