From: paulk@mathworks.com (Paul Kinnucan) Subject: RE: Emacs 20.2 port in the works 28 Mar 1998 19:48:02 -0800 Message-ID: <3.0.32.19980322123814.00753fa0.cygnus.gnu-win32@mail.mathworks.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: "Parker, Ron" , "'gnu-win32@cygnus.com'" At 11:07 AM 3/18/98 -0600, Parker, Ron wrote: >I am aware of: >* Geoff Voelker's NTEmacs port to Win32 >* Eli Zaretskii's djgpp port to MSDOS and Windows >* Hisashi Miyashita's MULE for Win32 >* XEmacs Win32 porting project > >I have heard expressed on this list many repeated problems and >difficulties with using NTEmacs in a complete cygwin32 environment. > As far as I can tell, the problems between NT/Emacs 20.x and cygwin32 b19 are primarily due to bugs in cygwin32, e.g., the problem with how stdin/out is handled. These bugs would cause problems with a Cygwin/Emacs as well. So having a "cygwin" Emacs would not make the current transition to major new versions of Emacs and cygwin any easier. >My purpose in porting emacs, is manifold. First off, I was unaware of >the XEmacs Win32 effort. It sounds promising but looks to be a longer >term solution. I want an emacs that can be run in a console window or in >X-Windows. This is due to my using these tools remotely from home on a Well, NT/Emacs runs in a console window just fine. >server at work. I want to supply a set of patches to the maintainers of >GNU Emacs, so that cygwin32 will compile "out-of-the-box" and the newest >version will always be available. Also, I desired to have the smallest >set of patches possible to enable this so that there would be very few >cygwin32 dependencies in the GNU source and therefore a very small >chance of newer versions not working with cygwin32. > I think you would better serve the Emacs community by working with Geoff Voelker and Andrew Innes to achieve these aims for NT/Emacs. Personally I don't think the world needs another NT/Emacs and I don't relish the prospect of a competing version diverting FSF attention and resources away from the fine work being done by Geoff, Andrew and others. - Paul - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".