Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 11:23:16 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Cc: klaus.berndl@sdm.de Subject: Re: New version of cygwin-mount.el Message-ID: <20010518112316.A6843@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com, klaus.berndl@sdm.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: ; from klaus.berndl@sdm.de on Fri, May 18, 2001 at 05:13:46PM +0200 On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 05:13:46PM +0200, klaus.berndl@sdm.de wrote: >>How large is this? Would it make sense to have it as part of the standard >>cygwin installation? I'm an emacs illiterate > >Does such people really exists :-)) > >>so I don't know if this makes sense or not. > >The cygwin-mount.el packages has about 25 KB. >IMHO it makes really sense for all Users of the NT-version of GNU Emacs >(For XEmacs i think this is not necessary, because there is a well working >cygwin-port of XEmacs, so there is no need for this), which want all the >power to work with cygwin-path-styles and the cygwin-mountpoints within >their NT-Emacs as if it would be normal NT-style paths. >To make a long story short: For all NT Emacs and Cygwin-users it makes a lot >of sense to add this to the standard-installation for the sake to make the >package best available. >I see one problem: The cygwin-mount.el must not be installed in the normal >cygwin-installation package directories or somewhere in the cygwin-tree but >it must be installed in the installation-tree of NT-Emacs, means in a certain >directory of the NT-Emacs installation. Is this possible with the cygwin-setup- >process?? It should be possible. setup could extract the files to a temporary location and then run a script which would move the file to the correct location. The problem is figuring out the correct location, though. How would we do that? cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple