I suspected I would not get my point across, but the questions were more important.
On Friday, December 27, 2013 9:20 PM, Andrey Repin <anrdae...@yandex.ru> wrote: Greetings, Jonathan Martin! > I've been fooling around with Cygwin for awhile now and I haven't done > anything overly serious with it but I have spent a serious amount of time > just thinking about what it could do and fooling around with other tools > that look like it. I've come up with questions that don't have answers yet, > though I've had to condense them down to just the questions. > Q: Why doesn't cygwin use an emacs as its frontend instead of a dosshell? What is "dosshell"? Whatever it is, Cygwin doesn't use it. It use either native Windows console or it's own mintty by default. >> The DOS shell is the native mintty for windows, even if you use a shell >>program the buffer is a DOSshell window. Emacs has a primitive Unixy shell >>that could be used as the terminal for Cygwin, and can broaden its >>functionality through powershell hacking in Emacs Lisp. It has also already >>fixed the common path conversion issue. This was one of my favorite questions >>so I have a few ideas on why this would be better. > Q: Why don't we work on setting up a full blown tutorial system with a set > of shell scripts and documentation segregation so that newbies can grok The > Hacker's Dreaming? You're very welcome. >> I have no idea what this means? What I was getting at is that a simple >>document and a few scripts could be written that tells new users about the >>filesystem and a few basic tools while teaching them about compiling with >>something that isn't likely to break, documentation. This could go on to make >>the whole process less confusing for new users. > Q: Why doesn't Cygwin do something similar to Cpan? And what exactly that supposed to mean? >> cpan is the module system for Perl. Its much easier to use than most of >>the packaging systems I've used that aren't also the cornerstone of a >>distribution. I had thought it might be possible to use something similar >>with cygwin so that mirrors would not be the issue they are now. > Q: Why is "#!>help" so useless? Why doesn't it get fixed to act more like > the old DOS help? Explain, what you mean, especially, what you mean by "dos help"? >> In windows, and in legacy DOS consoles, "Help" was an interactive help >>that listed the major commands. In Linux its a printf with accessories. My >>reference is DOS 5 and newer, and I think its better and part of why linux is >>less popular. > Q: I saw a quote from "Cybercities Reader" on a fellow list-subscriber's > reply and it is now sitting on my desk. What would The Great Hive Mind > suggest to me for further reading? I'm looking for a list of good books that > are somewhere I couldn't just browse across them as a given. ...? >> I had considered omitting this question anyway, so if you don't >>understand that is perfectly fine, its a complete non-sequitur. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@yandex.ru) 28.12.2013, <06:01> Sorry for my terrible english... >> Is not terrible. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
