Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: Chris Lott Cc: help-emacs-windows@gnu.org, cygwin@cygwin.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: cygwin, emacs, mozilla Message-ID: From: "Thomas L Roche" Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 15:15:40 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Chris Lott 10/24/2002 02:26 PM > So, is there a significant advantage to running Emacs on Cygwin this > way? Yes, you get the availability of all (err, lots of :-) the tools that emacs knows how to use and integrates well with, and a nicely-done installer for same. > I like the larger window and real-estate of the "windowed" version > of Emacs, Not necessarily connected: you can resize your shell window with its properties. See http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?CygwinizedEmacsHOWTO > so in order to run the Cygwin version I would have to fire up X > every time whereas the NT port just runs, correct? To run the X version, correct. This can be scripted: see http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?CygwinizedEmacsHOWTO > How well does Mozilla run on Cygwin That I don't know, but Moz says you can build Moz with Cygwin: see http://www.mozilla.org/build/win32.html -- 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/