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. 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: standard input is not a tty".) Instead, use a Cygwin version > >>of XEmacs, from http://www.xemacs.org/. Using "xemacs -nw" from a remote shell > > > >>works fine. > > > >To be exact, I know that there is now a Cygwin version of GNU Emacs, that > >XEmacs does not have a (setup.exe) Cygwin package, and that those URLs work. > >However, I don't the status of GNU Emacs or NT Emacs in a remote login shell. > > I haven't seen David Starks-Browning (FAQ maintainer) around lately but > I suspect that he might be interested in fixing this.
Indeed! I will certainly have to fix that question. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. 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? Thanks, David -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
