From: huott AT pinebush DOT com (Ed Huott) Subject: Re: anyone know of a good IDE? -Reply 14 Feb 1997 19:52:12 -0800 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199702141712.MAA05680.cygnus.gnu-win32@sol.pinebush.com> Original-To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 13 Feb 1997 11:01:03 MST." Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com In message , Barry Roberts writes: >You did run emacs -nw, right? The only problem is that it won't use color >in text mode. > >The DJGPP compiled GNU Emacs works great in Win 95 (including color), >but not in NT 4.0. It is 32-bit DOS-extended, I believe. > We're using a standard GNU Emacs distribution (19.31.1) built natively for win32 right out of the box with MSVC. (MSVC build support comes included.) It's been working great on NT 3.51 and NT 4.0, especially when combined with a set of standard Unix style utilities. (We're using mostly the cygwin32 stuff, but also some of the POSIX utilities from the NT 3.51 Resource Kit.) At this point, you'll probably want to use the 19.34 release since it fixes a (very) minor problem with repainting frame windows that have been obscured by other windows. With the proper setup, I can *almost* make believe I'm running my Emacs session on a Unix box. On top of that, they've done, IMHO, a very good job of of giving you ways to deal the various DOSisms such as drive letters, UNC names and text vs binary mode. This is one case where I think it makes a lot of sense to go with a "native" build (as opposed to relying on a glue DLL), especially since all of the work for it has already been done. Now, if I only knew how to do the win32 build with X client support built in... (sigh). - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".