Jason Rumney wrote:
One thing that I at the moment have commented out is setting of
process-coding-system-alist, because I do not understand when it is
needed. I myself is using CVS Emacs (the developers version) and that
might be the reason, but I do not know. Can you maybe explain why and
when it is needed?
Cygwin programs require (and output) Unix line ends. Since about
20.3, Emacs has automatically detected Cygwin programs and set the
coding-system for talking to them appropriately.
The Cygwin faq still recommends that process-coding-system-alist is set.
See the page http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq_toc.html, look for "What
about NT Emacs". Should we tell them to change this recommendation or is
there still a reason for it?
