Re: How to build Emacs in Cygwin environment?

2016-07-12 Thread Ken Brown
builds. That's right. The Cygwin builds of emacs use gfilenotify. Ken -- 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

Re: How to build Emacs in Cygwin environment?

2016-07-12 Thread Andy Moreton
On Tue 12 Jul 2016, Xi Shen wrote: > Thanks it worked. After configure --with-w32 and build, I tried to > invoke (w32notify-add-watch), but it seems it is still not available. > Any other tricks to apply? Because I want to add a new build-in lisp > function for Emacs for Windows, so I think it

Re: How to build Emacs in Cygwin environment?

2016-07-11 Thread Xi Shen
Shen >> about.me/davidshen > > As I said in my previous message, read INSTALL.REPO in the emacs repo, > and follow the instructions it contains. > > Use "./configure --with-w32" if you want a cygwin emacs that uses the > Win32 GUI (i.e. does not need use

Re: How to build Emacs in Cygwin environment?

2016-07-07 Thread Andy Moreton
figure --with-w32" if you want a cygwin emacs that uses the Win32 GUI (i.e. does not need use an X11 server for display). AndyM -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsub

Re: How to build Emacs in Cygwin environment?

2016-07-06 Thread Xi Shen
So I should execute "config --with-w32" inside a cygwin environment? Xi Shen about.me/davidshen On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 6:45 PM, Andy Moreton wrote: > On Tue 05 Jul 2016, Xi Shen wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I want to make some code change to Emacs for Windows, but first I

Re: How to build Emacs in Cygwin environment?

2016-07-05 Thread Andy Moreton
On Tue 05 Jul 2016, Xi Shen wrote: > Hi, > > I want to make some code change to Emacs for Windows, but first I need > to setup the build environment. > > I got the Emacs git repo, and tried "config msdos", but I got > "permission denied" error. If I execute "cmd" from Cygwin bash, I can > execute

Re: How to build Emacs in Cygwin environment?

2016-07-05 Thread Hans-Bernhard Bröker
Am 05.07.2016 um 08:38 schrieb Xi Shen: I want to make some code change to Emacs for Windows, but first I need to setup the build environment. I got the Emacs git repo, and tried "config msdos", That makes no sense. That step configures Emacs to build for _DOS_, not Windows. -- Problem

How to build Emacs in Cygwin environment?

2016-07-05 Thread Xi Shen
Hi, I want to make some code change to Emacs for Windows, but first I need to setup the build environment. I got the Emacs git repo, and tried "config msdos", but I got "permission denied" error. If I execute "cmd" from Cygwin bash, I can execute "config msdos", but I got error about DJGPP. I

Re: Font support of UTF-8 chars differ between w32 Emacs and Cygwin Emacs

2014-09-11 Thread Sebastien Vauban
Hello, Ken Brown wrote: On 9/3/2014 8:41 AM, Sebastien Vauban wrote: As you can see on http://screencast.com/t/XTTv9DSAC, win32 binaries of Emacs and Cygwin Emacs can't display the white right-pointing triangle coherently for the same fonts: - win32 Emacs always can display it, in all fonts

Re: Font support of UTF-8 chars differ between w32 Emacs and Cygwin Emacs

2014-09-11 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 10/09/2014 19:49, Ken Brown wrote: On 9/3/2014 8:41 AM, Sebastien Vauban wrote: Hello, As you can see on http://screencast.com/t/XTTv9DSAC, win32 binaries of Emacs and Cygwin Emacs can't display the white right-pointing triangle [1] coherently for the same fonts: - win32 Emacs always can

Re: Font support of UTF-8 chars differ between w32 Emacs and Cygwin Emacs

2014-09-11 Thread Achim Gratz
Sebastien Vauban writes: The problem would be with Cygwin in general, then, if not limited to Emacs. But why the same fonts (Consolas, Lucida Console) don't display the same range of characters in both worlds? You seem to assume that those fonts define that particular glyph. Both fonts you

Re: Font support of UTF-8 chars differ between w32 Emacs and Cygwin Emacs

2014-09-11 Thread Sebastien Vauban
font substitution and if so, how) and the results very much depend on the font maps used. I didn't know about that mechanism. But, then, the question is: why does Windows Emacs find a substitution, and not Cygwin Emacs (for the same font)? Best regards, Seb -- Sebastien Vauban -- Problem

Re: Font support of UTF-8 chars differ between w32 Emacs and Cygwin Emacs

2014-09-11 Thread Andrey Repin
and if so, how) and the results very much depend on the font maps used. I didn't know about that mechanism. But, then, the question is: why does Windows Emacs find a substitution, and not Cygwin Emacs (for the same font)? Because of different substitution mechanics. -- WBR, Andrey Repin

Re: Font support of UTF-8 chars differ between w32 Emacs and Cygwin Emacs

2014-09-11 Thread Ken Brown
with the same dimensions (I don't know if mintty does font substitution and if so, how) and the results very much depend on the font maps used. I didn't know about that mechanism. But, then, the question is: why does Windows Emacs find a substitution, and not Cygwin Emacs (for the same font)? It's clear

Re: Font support of UTF-8 chars differ between w32 Emacs and Cygwin Emacs

2014-09-10 Thread Ken Brown
On 9/3/2014 8:41 AM, Sebastien Vauban wrote: Hello, As you can see on http://screencast.com/t/XTTv9DSAC, win32 binaries of Emacs and Cygwin Emacs can't display the white right-pointing triangle [1] coherently for the same fonts: - win32 Emacs always can display it, in all fonts, - Cygwin

Font support of UTF-8 chars differ between w32 Emacs and Cygwin Emacs

2014-09-03 Thread Sebastien Vauban
Hello, As you can see on http://screencast.com/t/XTTv9DSAC, win32 binaries of Emacs and Cygwin Emacs can't display the white right-pointing triangle [1] coherently for the same fonts: - win32 Emacs always can display it, in all fonts, - Cygwin Emacs can't display it with Consolas, Courier New

Re: Font support of UTF-8 chars differ between w32 Emacs and Cygwin Emacs

2014-09-03 Thread Ken Brown
On 9/3/2014 8:41 AM, Sebastien Vauban wrote: Hello, As you can see on http://screencast.com/t/XTTv9DSAC, win32 binaries of Emacs and Cygwin Emacs can't display the white right-pointing triangle [1] coherently for the same fonts: - win32 Emacs always can display it, in all fonts, - Cygwin

Re: Font support of UTF-8 chars differ between w32 Emacs and Cygwin Emacs

2014-09-03 Thread Sebastien Vauban
Hello, Ken Brown wrote: On 9/3/2014 8:41 AM, Sebastien Vauban wrote: As you can see on http://screencast.com/t/XTTv9DSAC, win32 binaries of Emacs and Cygwin Emacs can't display the white right-pointing triangle [1] coherently for the same fonts: - win32 Emacs always can display it, in all

Emacs in Cygwin: (file-exists-p c:/)?

2011-11-30 Thread Tim McDaniel
I dunno whether anyone here know about Emacs, but I thought I would ask. In a previous setup (Windows XP, 32-bit), I believe that running the Emacs function (file-exists-p c:/) produced t. Now, with the latest Cygwin, Windows 7, 64-bit, emacs-version 23.3.1, (file-exists-p c:/) nil

Re: Emacs in Cygwin: (file-exists-p c:/)?

2011-11-30 Thread Ken Brown
On 11/30/2011 4:08 PM, Tim McDaniel wrote: I dunno whether anyone here know about Emacs, but I thought I would ask. In a previous setup (Windows XP, 32-bit), I believe that running the Emacs function (file-exists-p c:/) produced t. Now, with the latest Cygwin, Windows 7, 64-bit, emacs-version

Re: Multi-term in Emacs under Cygwin doesn't correctly identify terminal type?

2011-06-03 Thread Marc Girod
the control characters that term does. Marc -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Multi-term-in-Emacs-under-Cygwin-doesn%27t-correctly-identify-terminal-type--tp31762666p31764406.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Problem reports: http

Re: Multi-term in Emacs under Cygwin doesn't correctly identify terminal type?

2011-06-03 Thread Ken Brown
On 6/2/2011 11:47 PM, Duncan Bayne wrote: Hi All, I've installed Cygwin on Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit. After a rebaseall, Cygwin works nicely. However, I use multi-term in my default Emacs setup, and multi-term doesn't seem to like Cygwin at all. It looks as though multi-term isn't correctly

Multi-term in Emacs under Cygwin doesn't correctly identify terminal type?

2011-06-02 Thread Duncan Bayne
in Emacs on Linux, would hate to lose this functionality under Cygwin. P.S. I've also asked this question over on SuperUser, there's an as-yet-unclaimed +50 bounty on it. See: http://superuser.com/questions/288798/multi-term-in-emacs-under-cygwin-doesnt-correctly-identify-terminal-type

Re: getting emacs in cygwin

2007-07-02 Thread Wynfield Henman
Some people like to associate Cygwin tools with certain mime types so it's possible to click on a file in the explorer, for example, and have their favorite Cygwin tool open the file. Ah.. I see. That makes sense. I use zsh's suffix aliases and completion. I just enter the file name and zsh

Re: getting emacs in cygwin

2007-06-27 Thread Wynfield Henman
Larry, I tried using run.exe as you suggested in cygwin.bat but it does not work. The issue is not emacs, but the initial login terminal. Besides I don't see that it does emacs any good at all (1) it causes emacs to fail in a std tty window. and (2) from an x-window it doesn't do anything that

Re: getting emacs in cygwin

2007-06-27 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Wynfield Henman wrote: Larry, I tried using run.exe as you suggested in cygwin.bat but it does not work. The issue is not emacs, but the initial login terminal. Why are you starting emacs from cygwin.bat? Doesn't emacs have a -nw option for this purpose? Forgive me, I'm not an emacs

Re: getting emacs in cygwin

2007-06-27 Thread Wynfield Henman
On 6/27/07, Larry Hall (Cygwin) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wynfield Henman wrote: Larry, I tried using run.exe as you suggested in cygwin.bat but it does not work. The issue is not emacs, but the initial login terminal. Why are you starting emacs from cygwin.bat? I am not. You are the one

Re: getting emacs in cygwin

2007-06-27 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Wynfield Henman wrote: On 6/27/07, Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only-lh at cygwin dot com wrote: ^ http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR. Thanks. Wynfield Henman wrote: Larry, I tried using run.exe as you

Re: getting emacs in cygwin

2007-06-26 Thread Wynfield Henman
should be using? thanks for the great help! -- lou I use a cygwin compiled and build version of emacs, the most recent test version, but it sounds to me like you did not use setup and download the existing emacs binary from cygwin. runemacs.exe is NOT cygwin compatible, . or how to say

Re: getting emacs in cygwin

2007-06-26 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Wynfield Henman wrote: I had that annoyance to, but I used a shell login script to erase the offense windows box. Something like this. I used zsh, but you should be able to translate it to bash easily. It's not elegant, but it gets rid of the windows box. I forgot which one, but I think the

Re: getting emacs in cygwin

2007-06-24 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
illuzioner wrote: Wynfield Henman wrote: Lou, yes, you can run emacs in cygwin in either of two modes, which emacs figures out by itself. Either in terminal mode if invoked from a terminal emulator like, say putty or in full graphical mode if executed from one of cywin's X-windows

getting emacs in cygwin

2007-06-23 Thread illuzioner
hi, i currently run both cygwin and emacs under winXP, but emacs runs separately. can i run emacs in cygwin, and then have a shell inside of emacs? also, based on recommendations by some in this group i got puttycyg. i love that i can expand the window horizontally. however, when i execute

Re: getting emacs in cygwin

2007-06-23 Thread Wynfield Henman
Lou, yes, you can run emacs in cygwin in either of two modes, which emacs figures out by itself. Either in terminal mode if invoked from a terminal emulator like, say putty or in full graphical mode if executed from one of cywin's X-windows. And yes, you can run a shell inside it too, if you

Re: getting emacs in cygwin

2007-06-23 Thread illuzioner
Wynfield Henman wrote: Lou, yes, you can run emacs in cygwin in either of two modes, which emacs figures out by itself. Either in terminal mode if invoked from a terminal emulator like, say putty or in full graphical mode if executed from one of cywin's X-windows. And yes, you can

Where to discuss emacs (in cygwin) problems

2007-04-09 Thread Rockefeller, Harry
Is this the correct mail group to discuss cygwin application problems? Where can I get help with a cygwin-only emacs problem? Thanks. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http

Re: Where to discuss emacs (in cygwin) problems

2007-04-09 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Rockefeller, Harry wrote: Is this the correct mail group to discuss cygwin application problems? Where can I get help with a cygwin-only emacs problem? From http://cygwin.com/lists.html cygwin: a high volume list for discussion of just about all things related to the Cygwin community

Re: rebase emacs [was: cygwin-setup rebaseall]

2005-10-27 Thread Satish Balay
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Satish Balay wrote: On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Brian Dessent wrote: As far as I know almost all of the issues of corrupted DLLs have been fixed, but there still remains at least one known problem: emacs will hang and refuse to start after running rebaseall, unless you

Compiling XEmacs 21.4.17 (was Re: Emacs from cygwin in X mode with no X running)

2005-08-30 Thread Henry S. Thompson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ht writes: Or you can compile your own 21.4.17 from source, but this is _not_ a 'straight-out-of-the-box' exercise. If you try this and have trouble, I'll try to dig out my config.status and other notes from the last time I made it all work. I

Fwd: Octave Mode for emacs in Cygwin

2005-08-28 Thread James R. Phillips
--- Bill Denney wrote: Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 16:39:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill Denney To: James R. Phillips Subject: Octave Mode for emacs in Cygwin Might you be able to include octave mode in the cygwin build's next release? Thanks from a happy octave on cygwin user, Bill

Emacs from cygwin in X mode with no X running

2005-08-28 Thread Ian MacKinnon
Harry said :- Is there a handy way (on winxp) to use emacs as if in X but without installing or using the X side of cygwin? export DISPLAY= ; xemacs will do the job, as Xemacs will then start in MS mode. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Emacs from cygwin in X mode with no X running

2005-08-27 Thread Harry Putnam
James R. Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Have you actually tried installing the x-server and using it? It takes a while Yes. I just wanted to stay away from extra stuff. But as you surmised, not if it requires huge energy output. to download, but can be used somewhat unobtrusively.

Emacs from cygwin in X mode with no X running

2005-08-26 Thread Harry Putnam
is possible with ntemacs. Now I could just use ntemacs but then one runs into path problems since that tool doesn't know about `cygdrive', and I see no handy way to make that work with both cygwin setup and win native stuff. Using the cygwin installed emacs I get the -nw effect as if emacs were

Re: Emacs from cygwin in X mode with no X running

2005-08-26 Thread Andy Moreton
the cygwin installed emacs I get the -nw effect as if emacs were running in a linux console, unless I start an X session and run emacs from there. Is there a handy way (on winxp) to use emacs as if in X but without installing or using the X side of cygwin? You may find it easier to teach

Re: Emacs from cygwin in X mode with no X running

2005-08-26 Thread Harry Putnam
cygwin setup and win native stuff. Using the cygwin installed emacs I get the -nw effect as if emacs were running in a linux console, unless I start an X session and run emacs from there. Is there a handy way (on winxp) to use emacs as if in X but without installing or using the X side of cygwin

Re: Emacs from cygwin in X mode with no X running

2005-08-26 Thread Henry S. Thompson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Harry Putnam writes: I want to run emacs in gui mode but without starting an X session. That is, similar to what is possible with ntemacs. This can be done easily with XEmacs. You can get an only slightly stale version (21.4.13) straight out of

Re: Emacs from cygwin in X mode with no X running

2005-08-26 Thread Harry Putnam
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Henry S. Thompson) writes: [...] This can be done easily with XEmacs. You can get an only slightly stale version (21.4.13) straight out of the box from XEmacs.org [1] (pick 'native windows'). Or you can compile your own 21.4.17 from source, but this is _not_ a

Re: Emacs from cygwin in X mode with no X running

2005-08-26 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Harry Putnam wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Henry S. Thompson) writes: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR. Thanks. [...] This can be done easily with XEmacs. You can get an only slightly stale version (21.4.13) straight out of the box from XEmacs.org [1] (pick

Re: Emacs from cygwin in X mode with no X running

2005-08-26 Thread Andy Moreton
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 12:46:38 GMT, Harry Putnam wrote: Andy Moreton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 11:39:39 GMT, Harry Putnam wrote: [snipped] You may find it easier to teach NTemacs about cygwin paths: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/cygwin-mount.el What is

Re: Emacs from cygwin in X mode with no X running

2005-08-26 Thread Harry Putnam
Igor Pechtchanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, you could try compiling Emacs yourself and linking it against libW11 (that comes with rxvt). Most likely, this will not work, but I'm sure patches for missing functionality would be thoughtfully considered by the developers of rxvt. 'Tis a

Re: Emacs from cygwin in X mode with no X running

2005-08-26 Thread Harry Putnam
Andy Moreton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (cygwin-mount-activate) Egad I am being a tedious bore. I failed to eval that in my test. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

Re: Emacs from cygwin in X mode with no X running

2005-08-26 Thread Harry Putnam
of overview which says it will make emacs understand cygdrive. Here it does not. Below is an exerpt from emacs *Messages* buffer: You may note that after loading cygwin-mount.el. Emacs does not know where /cygdrive/c is. I typed in C-x d /cygdrive/c But emacs sees c:/cygdrive/c I type in C-x d /usr

Re: Emacs from cygwin in X mode with no X running

2005-08-26 Thread James R. Phillips
Have you actually tried installing the x-server and using it? It takes a while to download, but can be used somewhat unobtrusively. The default startxwin.sh shell script starts xwin in the multiwindow mode, which means you get a black X icon in the system tray when there are no X clients, and

Re: [SWIPL] emacs prolog cygwin question

2005-03-16 Thread Steve Kelem
is installed and what is and what is not in your search path--but then I am not familiar with how Cygwin is doing things. I ended up uninstalling the cygwin version (5.2.6) of swi prolog, loaded the version (5.4.7) from http://www.swi-prolog.org/, and the new one works---in a Cygwin tcsh

Re: any fix for the c-c and backspace problem with emacs on cygwin.

2005-01-24 Thread Sean McMahon
, 2005 3:23 PM Subject: Re: any fix for the c-c and backspace problem with emacs on cygwin. At 04:38 PM 1/20/2005, you wrote: In both ssh sessions and working with cygwin locally, hitting backspace in emacs issues a c-h, the help command. In the local sessions of cygwin only, not working

any fix for the c-c and backspace problem with emacs on cygwin.

2005-01-20 Thread Sean McMahon
In both ssh sessions and working with cygwin locally, hitting backspace in emacs issues a c-h, the help command. In the local sessions of cygwin only, not working on remote servers, c-c does not work. It does work over ssh. I do have the cygwin termcap entry on the remote server. backspacing

Re: any fix for the c-c and backspace problem with emacs on cygwin.

2005-01-20 Thread Larry Hall
At 04:38 PM 1/20/2005, you wrote: In both ssh sessions and working with cygwin locally, hitting backspace in emacs issues a c-h, the help command. In the local sessions of cygwin only, not working on remote servers, c-c does not work. It does work over ssh. I do have the cygwin termcap entry on

Problem quiting from emacs under cygwin

2004-04-03 Thread Anton Erasmus
Hi, The C-x C-c sequence to quit from emacs does not appear to work under cygwin. When pressing the C-c C-x, it just beeps at the C-x. Regards Anton Erasmus -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

Re: Problem quiting from emacs under cygwin

2004-04-03 Thread Anton Erasmus
On 2004/04/03 at 07:25 Anton Erasmus wrote: Hi, The C-x C-c sequence to quit from emacs does not appear to work under cygwin. When pressing the C-c C-x, it just beeps at the C-x. As often happens I found the answer with google after another 5 minutes of searching. (Using exit instead of quit

Re: Problem quiting from emacs under cygwin

2004-04-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 07:43:39PM +0200, Anton Erasmus wrote: On 2004/04/03 at 07:25 Anton Erasmus wrote: The C-x C-c sequence to quit from emacs does not appear to work under cygwin. When pressing the C-c C-x, it just beeps at the C-x. As often happens I found the answer with google after

Re: trying to compile emacs under cygwin

2003-04-03 Thread Joe Buehler
Robert Mecklenburg wrote: I'm trying to compile emacs under cygwin to debug the hanging problems I'm experiencing and I've run into a minor wall. Running emacs-21.2.install yields the error: Just a heads up: I am debugging a hang problem in Cygwin that emacs seems to trigger. It might

Re: trying to compile emacs under cygwin

2003-03-28 Thread Joe Buehler
the script to change the -62 to: +#ifdef HAVE_X_WINDOWS +#define SHEAP_ADJUSTMENT 2194816 /* XEmacs does this dynamically */ +#else +#define SHEAP_ADJUSTMENT 2194816 /* XEmacs does this dynamically */ +#endif That's the correct thing to do. Edit the build script -- it patches the original emacs

Re: trying to compile emacs under cygwin

2003-03-27 Thread Robert Mecklenburg
RM fatal (SHEAP_ADJUSTMENT needs to be modified to reduce memory waste!); JB The proper thing to do is adjust SHEAP_ADJUSTMENT like the message says. JB I think the SLOP parameter is a comparison fuzz setting. Okay, I'm forced to admit how lame I am, but I can't figure out how to reset this

trying to compile emacs under cygwin

2003-03-26 Thread Robert Mecklenburg
I'm trying to compile emacs under cygwin to debug the hanging problems I'm experiencing and I've run into a minor wall. Running emacs-21.2.install yields the error: Dumping under names emacs and emacs-21.2.1 Static heap usage: 2102240 of 2254144, slop is 65536 Static heap usage: 2102240

Re: trying to compile emacs under cygwin

2003-03-26 Thread Joe Buehler
Robert Mecklenburg wrote: fatal (SHEAP_ADJUSTMENT needs to be modified to reduce memory waste!); } I suppose I could increase the size of STATIC_HEAP_SLOP, but that is clearly a bad hack and may have other consequences. Suggestions? The proper thing to do is adjust SHEAP_ADJUSTMENT like

Reading pop3 mail with GNU emacs on Cygwin (21.2-12)

2003-02-19 Thread Ehud Karni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 There is a very small bug that inhibit the pop3 mechanism in rmail to work on Cygwin. The following patch fixes it. cd /usr/share/emacs/21.2/lisp/mail/ diff -c /usr/share/emacs/21.2/lisp/mail/rmail.el_org /usr/share/emacs/21.2/lisp/mail/rmail.el ***

Re: Emacs in Cygwin

2003-02-12 Thread David Robinow
function defined in a shell startup file (e.g. ~/.bashrc). Examples have been posted here several times. Does anyone know what causes the cygwin emacs to open up in XFree instead of the current window? That's how it's compiled. It has stopped doing this on my computer at work (I think

looking for what is hopefully a simple answer for someone trying to use EMACS in cygwin

2003-02-11 Thread Samir Gupta
Hello, I am having a problem with running cygwin emacs under windows 2000 pro at work, where I am concurrently running exceed (to connect to networked machines): when I initially run emacs it does not open up in a separate window so, I mimicked my xterm setup at work and did setenv

RE: looking for what is hopefully a simple answer for someone trying to use EMACS in cygwin

2003-02-11 Thread Samir Gupta
is hopefully a simple answer for someone trying to use EMACS in cygwin I think Samir Gupta wrote: 2) why do I have to enter an IP address in the Display variable if I am using cygwin on my local machine? What would I do if I were not connected to a network? You can omit the address and the screen

RE: looking for what is hopefully a simple answer for someone trying to use EMACS in cygwin

2003-02-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sounds like a problem with Exceed to me then. Larry Original Message: - From: Samir Gupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 12:32:18 -0800 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: looking for what is hopefully a simple answer for someone trying to use EMACS in cygwin That does

RE: looking for what is hopefully a simple answer for someone trying to use EMACS in cygwin

2003-02-11 Thread Samir Gupta
Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 1:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: looking for what is hopefully a simple answer for someone trying to use EMACS in cygwin Sounds like a problem with Exceed to me then. Larry

Re: looking for what is hopefully a simple answer for someone trying to use EMACS in cygwin

2003-02-11 Thread Elfyn McBratney
Why would exceed cause this problem? I have the problem even when I don't run exceed on this computer. I am also almost certain that this did not work when I tried it on a computer that did not have exceed on it at all. Are you trying to run plain-old emacs from a cygwin prompt and it keeps

RE: looking for what is hopefully a simple answer for someone trying to use EMACS in cygwin

2003-02-11 Thread Samir Gupta
! -Original Message- From: Elfyn McBratney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 2:06 PM To: cygwin; Samir Gupta Subject: Re: looking for what is hopefully a simple answer for someone trying to use EMACS in cygwin Why would exceed cause this problem? I have the problem even

Re: looking for what is hopefully a simple answer for someone trying to use EMACS in cygwin

2003-02-11 Thread Elfyn McBratney
even when I don't run exceed on this computer. I am also almost certain that this did not work when I tried it on a computer that did not have exceed on it at all. Are you trying to run plain-old emacs from a cygwin prompt and it keeps telling you about the X thing? If so just run `emacs

RE: looking for what is hopefully a simple answer for someone trying to use EMACS in cygwin

2003-02-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
about it. Larry Original Message: - From: Samir Gupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 14:18:53 -0800 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: looking for what is hopefully a simple answer for someone trying to use EMACS in cygwin Hello, Yes, that is what I am trying to do

RE: looking for what is hopefully a simple answer for someone trying to use EMACS in cygwin

2003-02-11 Thread Samir Gupta
Yes, something must have happened to my cygwin emacs, because, earlier today, I think it was interacting with my exceed program somehow. It was letting me run emacs in cygwin the same way I did it in exceed. So, if I typed, emacs any local file from my cygwin tcsh shell, it would open up my

Re: emacs on cygwin

2002-10-14 Thread Joe Buehler
Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: No. If you want NT Emacs to understand Cygwin paths, get cygwin-mount.el from http://www.emacswiki.org/elisp/index.html. The Cygwin GNU emacs understands //machine/share syntax, but not X:/path syntax. Normal Cygwin /some/path/to/file syntax is fine also (of course

RE: emacs on cygwin

2002-10-14 Thread Kris Thielemans
Hi Gareth and all, just to mention that I'm using cygwin's telnetd now (I was using exceed's telnetd), and now emacs -nw works perfectly! thanks Kris To add to my tests I reported in my previous mail: - I am on my NT PC - I telnet (using cygwin's telnet) to my NT PC - \cygwin\cygwin

Re: emacs on cygwin

2002-10-10 Thread David Starks-Browning
. One I particularly noticed was: Is there a Cygwin port of GNU Emacs? No. If you want NT Emacs to understand Cygwin paths, get cygwin-mount.el from http://www.emacswiki.org/elisp/index.html. If you want to run emacs -nw, say from a remote login shell, you can't. (The error is emacs

RE: emacs on cygwin

2002-10-10 Thread Kris Thielemans
However, I don't use the Cygwin port of Emacs (yet?), so I also do not know the status of using emacs -nw from a remote shell. Has anyone tried this? Does it work? Hi I have NT4.0, latest cygwin, Exceed for X-windows emulation and Exceed telnetd. I let cygwin-setup install 'emacs with X

Re: emacs on cygwin

2002-10-10 Thread David Starks-Browning
On Thursday 10 Oct 02, Bjoern Kahl AG Resy writes: However, I don't use the Cygwin port of Emacs (yet?), so I also do not know the status of using emacs -nw from a remote shell. Has anyone tried this? Does it work? I have installed Cygwin including the GNU-emacs package offered

RE: emacs on cygwin

2002-10-10 Thread Kris Thielemans
telnet) to my NT PC - \cygwin\cygwin, emacs- nw This is a lot better than when I telnetted from my linux box. The display is ok now. However, arrow keys don't work (they get entered as ABC etc. i.e. the last part of the ANSI sequence), and Ctrl-C still beeps and doesn't get entered into emacs

Re: emacs on cygwin

2002-10-10 Thread Gareth Pearce
To add to my tests I reported in my previous mail: - I am on my NT PC - I telnet (using cygwin's telnet) to my NT PC - \cygwin\cygwin, emacs- nw This is a lot better than when I telnetted from my linux box. The display is ok now. However, arrow keys don't work (they get entered as ABC etc

emacs on cygwin

2002-10-09 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
I was looking at the FAQ and realized some questions need an update. I plan to do this. However, some of them I don't have the knowledge to frame a correct updated answer. One I particularly noticed was: Is there a Cygwin port of GNU Emacs? No. If you want NT Emacs to understand Cygwin paths

Re: emacs on cygwin

2002-10-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
port of GNU Emacs? No. If you want NT Emacs to understand Cygwin paths, get cygwin-mount.el from http://www.emacswiki.org/elisp/index.html. If you want to run emacs -nw, say from a remote login shell, you can't. (The error is emacs: standard input is not a tty.) Instead, use a Cygwin version

RE: Emacs for cygwin?

2002-03-20 Thread Robert Mark Bram
, 20 March 2002 11:49 PM To: Cygwin Subject: Emacs for cygwin? Hi all! I just visited the archives and cygwin.com and could not get any positive hit, but this seems like such an important utility. Is it true there is no emacs for Cygwin? Thanks! Rob :) :-} ;- -- Unsubscribe info: http

RE: Emacs for cygwin?

2002-03-20 Thread David Starks-Browning
On Thursday 21 Mar 02, Robert Mark Bram writes: I take that back - I have found references to Emacs, but can anyone point me in the right direction for a download site (hopefully with a few instructions)? Since GNU Emacs is not a Cygwin application, such a query is off-topic for this list. I

Re: Emacs for Cygwin (was: cygwin-mount.el, Using GDB in NTEMACS)

2002-02-28 Thread Katherina O'Connor
Hello, I am very interested in a cygwin/xfree86 emacs, because NTemacs can't be regarded as an full emacs port, and xemacs isn't really compatible, and much too slow. Furthermore I believe that since the 21.1 emacs has become better than xemacs. However I must mention that I am very happy

Re: Emacs for Cygwin (was: cygwin-mount.el, Using GDB in NTEMACS)

2002-02-28 Thread Charles Wilson
Jon Cast wrote: Sorry to start a flamewar, but this needs replying to: Sure In PRIVATE mail Please take this incipient flamewar offline --Chuck -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwincom/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwincom/bugshtml Documentation:

Re: Emacs for Cygwin (was: cygwin-mount.el, Using GDB in NTEMACS)

2002-02-28 Thread Jon Cast
Katherina O'Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am very interested in a cygwin/xfree86 emacs, Thank you for your interest. reasoning skipped However I must mention that I am very happy that xemacs is available in a cygwin version. Naturally. In the past I tried porting emacs to cygwin

Re: Emacs for Cygwin (was: cygwin-mount.el, Using GDB in NTEMACS)

2002-02-28 Thread John A. Turner
Charles Wilson wrote: Jon Cast wrote: Sorry to start a flamewar, but this needs replying to: Sure In PRIVATE mail Please take this incipient flamewar offline I have no interest in a flame war even offline I didn't even understand half of what Jon was saying about political beliefs

Re: Emacs for Cygwin (was: cygwin-mount.el, Using GDB in NTEMACS)

2002-02-27 Thread Eli Zaretskii
think about it, the more I think the ideal solution (bearing in mind that we are talking about a *Cygwin* port of Emacs) is use the normal LessTif toolkit support, and make LessTif work ``right'' from our perspective under Windows. (This would also allow us to support remote X connections, which

Re: Emacs for Cygwin (was: cygwin-mount.el, Using GDB in NTEMACS)

2002-02-27 Thread David Rothenberger
FWIW, there's a true Cygwin port of XEmacs available now (as well as a Windows-native port). See http://www.xemacs.org Jon Cast wrote: You wrote: I think that we need a CygEmacs - an emacs that will be compiled with the real Cygwin ported gcc (i.e. without the -mno-cygwin). I

Re: Emacs for Cygwin (was: cygwin-mount.el, Using GDB in NTEMACS)

2002-02-27 Thread Jon Cast
by no means the primary) motivation for my doing this--to stop XEmacs supporters from sending this type of email *every time* *anyone* asks (or talks, apparently) about Emacs on Cygwin. Jon Cast p.s. Flames (on both sides) to /dev/null, please -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml

Re: Emacs for Cygwin (was: cygwin-mount.el, Using GDB in NTEMACS)

2002-02-27 Thread John A. Turner
Jon Cast wrote: FWIW, I'm a GNU fanatic who wouldn't touch XEmacs with a ten-foot pole :) smiley notwithstanding, that doesn't seem all that amusing to me XEmacs is of course GPL'd, and I'd direct anyone who might wonder about the source of misguided comments such as the above to:

Emacs for Cygwin (was: cygwin-mount.el, Using GDB in NTEMACS)

2002-02-26 Thread Ehud Karni
. This is already done (partly) by the Cygwin port of rxvt. If this is too difficult, may be a version of Emacs for Cygwin, that use only the UNIX APIs can be ported. This Emacs version will be used only within Cygwin's windows - Console or rxvt (Emacs in TTY mode) or real display (using Cygwin-Xfree). Any

Re: Emacs for Cygwin (was: cygwin-mount.el, Using GDB in NTEMACS)

2002-02-26 Thread Jon Cast
$Windows APIs for the display and the keyboard. This is already done (partly) by the Cygwin port of rxvt. I used to agree with you, but the more I think about it, the more I think the ideal solution (bearing in mind that we are talking about a *Cygwin* port of Emacs) is use the normal LessTif toolkit