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Re: emacs on cygwin
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 07:10:31PM -0700, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:
>I was looking at the FAQ and realized some questions need an update.
>I plan to do this. However, some of them I don't have the knowledge
>to frame a correct updated answer. One I particularly noticed was:
>
>>Is there a Cygwin port of GNU Emacs?
>>
>>No. If you want NT Emacs to understand Cygwin paths, get cygwin-mount.el from
>>http://www.emacswiki.org/elisp/index.html.
>>
>>If you want to run "emacs -nw", say from a remote login shell, you can't. (The
>>error is "emacs: standard input is not a tty".) Instead, use a Cygwin version
>>of XEmacs, from http://www.xemacs.org/. Using "xemacs -nw" from a remote shell
>
>>works fine.
>
>To be exact, I know that there is now a Cygwin version of GNU Emacs, that
>XEmacs does not have a (setup.exe) Cygwin package, and that those URLs work.
>However, I don't the status of GNU Emacs or NT Emacs in a remote login shell.
I haven't seen David Starks-Browning (FAQ maintainer) around lately but
I suspect that he might be interested in fixing this.
cgf
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