Re: A ream of questions

2013-12-30 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Jonathan Martin! > I suspected I would not get my point across, but the questions were more > important. If I understand your complaints right, you have to go to the very home page of the project and carefully read the very first few paragraphs there, carefully named "What [cygwin] i

Re: A ream of questions

2013-12-30 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Eliot Moss! > (Sent first version to Andre only ... sorry, Andre!) This is why I set "reply-to" address back to list... If you WANT to send me a private message, you can do it. But with default setup, your replies transparently sent to the list. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@yande

Re: A ream of questions

2013-12-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 06:51:32PM -0500, Andrew Schulman wrote: >>I suspected I would not get my point across, but the questions were >>more important. > >I don't know. Whatever your point was, it was lost on me and probably >almost everyone who frequents this list. But please don't elaborate, I

Re: A ream of questions

2013-12-28 Thread Andrew Schulman
> I suspected I would not get my point across, but the questions were more > important. I don't know. Whatever your point was, it was lost on me and probably almost everyone who frequents this list. But please don't elaborate, I don't think we're interested. If you have constructive improvem

Re: A ream of questions

2013-12-28 Thread Jonathan Martin
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 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

Re: A ream of questions

2013-12-27 Thread Eliot Moss
On 12/27/2013 9:05 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: >> 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. I think the OP may have meant cmd.exe. To

Re: A ream of questions

2013-12-27 Thread Eliot Moss
On 12/27/2013 9:05 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: 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. I think the OP may have meant cmd.exe. To discu

Re: A ream of questions

2013-12-27 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Jonathan Martin! > I've been fooling around with Cygwin for awhile now and I haven't done > anything overly serious withit 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 question

A ream of questions

2013-12-27 Thread Jonathan Martin
I've been fooling around with Cygwin for awhile now and I haven't done anything overly serious withit 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, tho