Re: cygwin emacs path problem

[Ed Mooney]

Now I'm confused. Is the version of emacs[1] you can install by running 
http://cygwin.com/setup.exe "A" or "B"? I had thought it was "A". If 
not, where can I get "A"?

  -- Ed
[1] E.g.: http://mirrors.rcn.net/pub/sourceware/cygwin/release/emacs/
Jason Rumney wrote:
Paul Kinnucan wrote:
Hi Felix,
As I understand it, there are two versions of "cygwin emacs":
 (A) a version of Unix Emacs modified specifically to run in the      
Cygwin environment and
 (B) the standard Unix version of Emacs compiled, using cygwin
     gcc, to run in the Cygwin environment

JDEE supports the A version. It does not support the B
version.  The reason for this is that years ago, long
before the B-version existed, some JDEE users asked for A
version support and some of those users actually contributed
code necessary to support the A version. Meanwhile, until
now, there has been no demand for B-version support.
 

Really this is a cygwin problem. A cygwin version of Emacs needs to be 
modified to fit its environment, as the 'A' version was. I'm not sure 
what happened to those patches, but it is unreasonable of the Cygwin 
maintainers to expect the maintainers of every other package to make 
changes to accomodate Cygwin's lack of fitting in with its environment 
so that they themselves can use unmodified code targetted at GNU/Linux.