Paul Kinnucan <paulk <at> mathworks.com> writes: > > Ed Mooney writes: > > 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"? > > Hi Ed, > > I thought A was still available. My knowledge is very hazy > on cygwin as my own dealings with it were only to test out > changes to the JDEE intended to support it. Perhaps B > replaced A. Anyway, I believe A was developed before Cygwin > supported X Windows and thus included source changes to use > the native Windows GUI. I believe B was made possible by the > porting of X Windows to Cygwin. This enables Cygwin to > support a binary compiled directly from the Unix sources for > Emacs, without any Windows-specific modifications. I don't > know if the JDEE takes advantage of any A modifications that > are missing from the B version. It would help if anyone can > shed any light on this question as this would enable me to > determine how much work would be needed to enhance the JDEE > to support the B version.
I'm using the B cygwin/emacs, because I thought nt/emacs was no more supported. My version of nt/emacs was outdated, I had problems with nxml-mode and I couldn't find an earlier version ; so I decided to upgrade to the cygwin package. Then, I used jdee, encountered new problems, found solutions suitable for me and started this discussion. Now, I'm going to experiment 2 solutions I found out with your help : 1. early versions of nt/emacs are available (again ?) in http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/windows/emacs/ 2. according to this message http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-04/msg00277.html, the emacs cvs version supports the cygwin platform ; I hope it supports the Windows style paths like other cygwin programs.
