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 Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20010723140618.0221ff18@pop.ma.ultranet.com> X-Sender: lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 14:08:15 -0400 To: Charles Wilson , Glen Coakley From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Subject: Re: Text editors under Cygnus Cc: "'dominic@herard.net'" , cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com In-Reply-To: <3B5C58F6.7060403@ece.gatech.edu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-GCMulti: 1 X-SMTP-Server: PostCast Server 1.0.0 At 01:03 PM 7/23/2001, Charles Wilson wrote: >Glen Coakley wrote: > >>If you would like a lighter version (no X code): >>http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/ntemacs.html >>(http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html) >>It doesn't run 'under' Cygnus but it does run on Windows and the FAQ lists >>where to get a small lisp module that will teach it to understand Cygwin >>mounts and paths. > > >I don't want to get into a "my-emacs-is-better" flamewar -- both NTEmacs and XEmacs are great packages. However, I do want to clear up a misunderstanding: > >Despite the name "XEmacs", the packages built for windows and for cygwin do NOT require an Xserver. In fact, they don't contain the X code at all. (You *can* build an X-based XEmacs for cygwin, but the official package is not built that way). And I'll just follow-up on Chuck's comment by pointing out that XEmacs, because it can be built on Cygwin, automatically understands all the niceties of the Cygwin environment (like mounts, symlinks, etc) by default. Larry -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/