The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution as test
releases. Note that there have been some packaging changes, so that the package
names better reflect the package contents.
* emacs-28.1-1
This is now a virtual package that forces installation of one of the following
four "binary" packages. If you don't select one of these four, then emacs-basic
will be installed by default.
* emacs-basic-28.1-1
* emacs-w32-28.1-1
* emacs-gtk-28.1-1
* emacs-lucid-28.1-1
Each of these contains an emacs binary of the same name as the package. For
example, emacs-basic provides /usr/bin/emacs-basic.exe, formerly called
emacs-nox.exe. emacs-gtk used to be called emacs-X11. For backwards
compatibility, the old names /usr/bin/emacs-nox and /usr/bin/emacs-X11 can still
be used.
* emacs-common-28.1-1
This contains files needed by each of the four binaries.
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 an update to the latest upstream release. Browse the NEWS file ('C-h n'
within emacs) for changes since the last release.
This release is a test release only because of the packaging changes. If no
problems are reported, it will be promoted from test to current in a week or so.
Unlike the previous test release, this release was *not* built with the new
native compilation feature, which still needs more testing. Once 28.1-1 has
been promoted to current, I will make a new test release, 28.1-2, built with
native compilation.
CYGWIN NOTES
1. The four binary packages emacs-basic, emacs-w32, emacs-gtk, and
emacs-lucid have been listed 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-gtk.exe if you've installed emacs-gtk; otherwise, it will
start emacs-w32.exe if you've installed emacs-w32; otherwise, it
will start emacs-basic.exe. Similar remarks apply to emacsclient.
If you have installed more than one of the binary packages 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. Install emacs-gtk if you want to use the X11 GUI with the GTK+
toolkit. You can then type 'emacs&' in an xterm window, and
emacs-gtk.exe will start in a new window. If you prefer the Lucid
toolkit, install emacs-lucid instead.
3. Install emacs-w32 if you want to use the native Windows GUI instead
of X11.
4. Install emacs-basic if you want a minimal emacs with no GUI.
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-gtk or
emacs-lucid 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
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