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

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

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.

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

2005-08-26 Thread Andy Moreton
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 11:39:39 GMT, Harry Putnam wrote: My background is unix/linux so when I find myself on MS OS of one vintage or another I sorely need the cygwin tools. However, one thing I've not found a way to get smoothed out is how to run emacs. I want to run emacs in gui mode

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

2005-08-26 Thread Harry Putnam
Andy Moreton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 11:39:39 GMT, Harry Putnam wrote: My background is unix/linux so when I find myself on MS OS of one vintage or another I sorely need the cygwin tools. However, one thing I've not found a way to get smoothed out is how to run

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
Andy Moreton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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:

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: Emacs in Cygwin

2003-02-12 Thread David Robinow
S Gupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am at home now, and if I have my display environment variable set to:  ${HOST}:0.0 or :0 and if I have the program Cygwin/XFree86 rl open in the background, emacs opens up in the XFree program and not the current window. (If I do not have the XFree program open,

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

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 -

Re: emacs on cygwin

2002-10-10 Thread David Starks-Browning
On Wednesday 9 Oct 02, Christopher Faylor writes: On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 07:10:31PM -0700, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: 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.

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 by

RE: emacs on cygwin

2002-10-10 Thread Kris Thielemans
Hi Bjoern, that's interesting, as emacs -nw doesn't work for me... Could you offer a bit more detail on what you mean with remote execution? Where do you com from? Which daemon are you using? To add to my tests I reported in my previous mail: - I am on my NT PC - I telnet (using cygwin's

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.

Re: emacs on cygwin

2002-10-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 07:10:31PM -0700, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: 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

RE: Emacs for cygwin?

2002-03-20 Thread Robert Mark Bram
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)? Thanks! Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Robert Mark Bram Sent: Wednesday,

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 that

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

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
From: Jon Cast [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 21:33:11 -0600 CygEmacs will have UNIX APIs for I/O (files and sockets), and M$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

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
David Rothenberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FWIW, there's a true Cygwin port of XEmacs available now (as well as a Windows-native port). See http://www.xemacs.org FWIW, I'm a GNU fanatic who wouldn't touch XEmacs with a ten-foot pole :) Seriously, this kind of message is one (although by

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:

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

2002-02-26 Thread Jon Cast
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 should probably point out that I am (slowly) working on such a port of Emacs. CygEmacs will have UNIX APIs for I/O (files and sockets), and