Cyrille Lefevre wrote: Thanks for your informed criticism. But I haven't suggested it should be delivered with Cygwin.
>make install should copy mg to /bin instead of /docs/Command, Yup >copy >documentation files in /usr/share/doc/mg3a and samples (dot files) >in /us/share/doc/mg3a/examples Yes. Thanks. > >v2$ echo $LANG >en_US.UTF-8 > >v2$ mg >M-x emacs-version >Mg 2a (formerly MicroGnuEmacs) Ah. Thanks. > >s/2/3/ no ? > >v2$ mg >^H a RET >apropos: Segmentation fault >uh! Old bug. Menitioned in the old documentation. Incredibly hairy code. > >sigh, no ^X d (aka dired mode) by default ! True. I never use it. I kind of philosophically disagree with it. >well, I've tried w/o NO_DIRED and d_makename() needs to be rewritten >a lot to handle dynamic comlumns sizing of gnu ls :-( It was good that it worked at all :-) There is also a NO_BACKUP #define. I don't guarantee what happens if you remove it. >to compile w/o NO_DIRED, in function fbackupfile in file fileio.c, replace : >char *malloc(); >by >#define rename renamefile Helpful. Thanks. > >^Z doesn't suspend ! I know. The very old code did this for a BSD system. But I have never figured out how to do this portably on a more modern system. Mentioned in the documentation. > >^X ^F doesn't complete :-( That would be a nice feature. > >no M-T (transpose-words) Hmm. Could be added I guess. > >M-x something say [Ambiguous] w/o listing possible solutions OK. It never did, actually. Of course we don't have to do everything Emacs did. > >about defines : >-DNO_BACKUP may be replaced by -DMAKEBACKUP=0, so, it is disabled by >default and may be enable using (make-backup-files) if needed. >as suggested, -DLF_DEFAULT should be defined If it were distributed with Cygwin I would certainly define LF_DEFAULT. I wouldn't do it all on my own, but certainly if it's a condition. >-DNOTAB seems to work fine but no-tab-mode and nobom must be switched in >keymap.c OH! Thanks. Fixed. >-DPREFIXREGION seems to work fine >-DREGEX seems to work fine I haven't touched those. >-DSCROLLBYONE seems to work fine OK. That was more thorough than I asked for ;-) But very helpful. Thanks. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
