The attached patch brings the emacs FAQ entry up to date for cygwin 1.7.
Ken
--- faq-using.xml.orig 2009-06-11 16:18:19.000000000 -0400 +++ faq-using.xml 2009-06-12 08:21:42.403451200 -0400 @@ -820,8 +820,14 @@ <question><para>Is there a Cygwin port of GNU Emacs?</para></question> <answer> -<para>Yes. It uses the X11 (<ulink url="http://cygwin.com/xfree/">http://cygwin.com/xfree/</ulink>) GUI. Right now the package is old and outdated. -Consider using XEmacs for now. +<para>Yes. Install the emacs package. This provides everything you +need in order to run GNU emacs in a terminal window. If you also want +to be able to use the X11 +(<ulink url="http://cygwin.com/xfree/">http://cygwin.com/xfree/</ulink>) +GUI, install the emacs-X11 package. In either case, you run emacs by +typing 'emacs' or '/usr/bin/emacs'. If you run emacs in the cygwin +console, be sure that your CYGWIN environment variable contains tty. +See /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/emacs.README for further information. </para> </answer></qandaentry>