"Supreme Commander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > Hi > I wanted a UNIX environment in WinXP, so I downloaded Cygwin, full package. > In order to run Emacs in a window of my own, I was recommended to start a > program "usr/X11R6/bin/startxwin.sh". Unfortunately, this results in a
> blue-screen-of-death; the immediate shutdown of the system. Is this a bug > (..in cygwin)? Don't know on this one. Send in the log, if one is generated. > Even though I run RedHat, I am quite new to Linux/Unix, so I am afraid I > need detailed help if possible. What I want to accomplish is as follows: > > Run Emacs in a interactive window (where I can use mouse on the 'file', > 'edit'.. -menus) This I could not with the emacs started in the cygwin > terminal window (GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (i686-pc-cygwin, X toolkit)) > > Write Fortran programs in Emacs, with the color-aid provided in i.e RedHat. > Example: writing "integer i" will colorcode keyword "integer", and also > variable 'i'. You don't need X for any of this. Get the native NT/XP version of emacs or xemacs. Then you avoid the cut/paste issues with X/windows/emacs selection. > > Compile this to a UNIX excecutable program. But..you want to create a UNIX executable? Do you mean cygwin? Or are you trying to cross-compile to Linux? Cary
