The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution as test releases:
* emacs-27.1-0.2 * emacs-common-27.1-0.2 * emacs-X11-27.1-0.2 * emacs-w32-27.1-0.2 * emacs-lucid-27.1-0.2 Emacs is a powerful, customizable, self-documenting, modeless text editor. Emacs contains special code editing features, a scripting language (elisp), and the capability to read mail, news, and more without leaving the editor. This is the second release candidate for the upcoming emacs-27.1. Browse the NEWS file ('C-h n' within emacs) for changes since the last release. CYGWIN NOTES ============ 1. The emacs, emacs-w32, emacs-X11, and emacs-lucid packages each provide an emacs binary. These are emacs-nox.exe, emacs-w32.exe, emacs-X11.exe, and emacs-lucid.exe, respectively, in order of increasing priority. The postinstall scripts create a symlink /usr/bin/emacs that resolves to the highest-priority binary that you have installed. Thus the command 'emacs' will start emacs-lucid.exe if you've installed the emacs-lucid package; otherwise, it will start emacs-X11.exe if you've installed emacs-X11; otherwise, it will start emacs-w32.exe if you've installed emacs-w32; otherwise, it will start emacs-nox.exe if you've installed emacs. Similar remarks apply to emacsclient. You only need to install one of these four packages, but you can install more if you want. If you have installed more than one and don't like the default resolution of /usr/bin/emacs, you can run one of the /usr/bin/set-emacs-default-*.sh scripts to change it. For example, /usr/bin/set-emacs-default-w32.sh will make /usr/bin/emacs resolve to /usr/bin/emacs-w32.exe, regardless of which packages you've installed. 2. The emacs-common package contains the files that are needed by all four of the binary packages mentioned above. It also contains the elisp source files, which used to be in a separate (now obsolete) emacs-el package. 3. Install emacs-X11 if you want to use the X11 GUI with the GTK+ toolkit. (This is the default toolkit.) You can then type 'emacs&' in an xterm window, and emacs-X11.exe will start in a new window. If you prefer the Lucid toolkit, install emacs-lucid instead. 4. Install emacs-w32 if you want to use the native Windows GUI instead of X11. 5. If you use the Emacs MH-E library for email, consider installing Cygwin's mailutils-mh package. To use it, put the line (load "mailutils-mh") in your site-start.el or ~/.emacs file. 6. If you have sshd running and want to be able to run emacs-X11 from a remote machine, you need to enable X11 forwarding by adding the following line to /etc/sshd_config: X11Forwarding yes You might also need to have the cygserver service running. 7. The script /usr/bin/make-emacs-shortcut can be used to create a shortcut for starting emacs. See /usr/share/doc/emacs/README.Cygwin for details. Ken Brown Cygwin's Emacs maintainer