Re: FAQ entries about emacs

["Dr. Volker Zell" <dr dot volker dot zell at oracle dot com>]

>>>>> Corinna Vinschen writes:

    > Thank you!  Unfortunately I have a problem.  The patch applies cleanly,
    > but the result doesn't build.  The easy part was to fix the usage of
    > `&' in the screen sections, they just have to be converted to `&'.
    > But the really big problem is that the <para> and <itemizedlist> markers
    > are not correctly balanced.  I tried to fix that myself, but it occured
    > to me that I'm not sure what your exact intention was.  Can you have
    > another look, please?

Try this one:

--- faq-using.xml.orig	2009-02-22 20:36:51.078125000 +0100
+++ faq-using.xml	2009-02-23 13:41:38.359375000 +0100
@@ -806,13 +806,46 @@
 </answer></qandaentry>
 
 <qandaentry id="faq.using.xemacs">
-<question><para>What about XEmacs?</para></question>
+<question><para>Is there a Cygwin port of XEmacs?</para></question>
 <answer>
 
-<para>For a concise description of the current situation with XEmacs, see
-this message from the Cygwin mailing list:
-<ulink url="http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-11/msg00609.html";>http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-11/msg00609.html</ulink>.
+<para>Yes.  It can be used in three different modes:</para>
+<para><itemizedlist>
+<listitem><para>X11 (<ulink url="http://cygwin.com/xfree/";>http://cygwin.com/xfree/</ulink>) GUI</para></listitem>
+</itemizedlist></para>
+<para>You have to <emphasis>set</emphasis> the DISPLAY environment variable
+before starting xemacs.</para>
+<screen>
+	bash$ DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0 xemacs &amp;
+</screen>
+<para><itemizedlist>
+<listitem><para>Windows native GUI</para></listitem>
+</itemizedlist></para>
+<para>You have to <emphasis>unset</emphasis> the DISPLAY environment variable
+before starting xemacs.</para>
+<screen>
+	bash$ DISPLAY= xemacs &amp;
+</screen>
+<para><itemizedlist>
+<listitem><para>Console mode</para></listitem>
+</itemizedlist></para>
+<para>Start xemacs with -nw in a terminal (native or X11) window</para>
+<screen>
+	bash$ xemacs -nw
+</screen>
+<para>The current stable Cygwin version of XEmacs is 21.4.x. But there is also a
+Cygwin test release version (21.5.x) available for download via setup.exe.
 </para>
+<para>To use all the standard packages with XEmacs you should download the following
+two packages:</para>
+<para><itemizedlist>
+<listitem><para>xemacs-sumo - XEmacs standard packages</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>xemacs-mule-sumo - XEmacs MULE (MUlti Lingual Emacs) packages</para></listitem>
+</itemizedlist></para>
+<para>An alternative <emphasis>native</emphasis> distribution of XEmacs for
+Windows based systems can be downloaded from
+<ulink url="http://xemacs.org/Download/win32/index.html";>http://xemacs.org/Download/win32/index.html</ulink>.
+It uses an <emphasis>InnoSetup Kit</emphasis> based installer.</para>
 </answer></qandaentry>
 
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Ciao
  Volker