The current version of the GNU emacs packages in the Cygwin distribution
has been updated to the latest upstream release:
*** emacs-24.2-1
*** emacs-X11-24.2-1
*** emacs-el-24.2-1
*** emacs-debuginfo-24.2-1
This is a bugfix release. It fixes a security flaw that allowed
automatic code execution via file-local variables when the user option
`enable-local-variables' was changed from its default value to `:safe'
(CVE-2012-3479), plus many other bugs.
I have also applied the security fix to the previous version:
*** emacs-23.4-3
*** emacs-X11-23.4-3
*** emacs-el-23.4-3
Emacs is a powerful, customizable, self-documenting, modeless text
editor. Emacs contains special code editing features, a scripting
language (elisp), and the capability to read mail, news, and more
without leaving the editor.
CYGWIN NOTES
============
Install the emacs-X11 package if you want to use the X11 GUI. You can
then type 'emacs&' in an xterm window, and emacs will start in a new
window. If you have sshd running and want to be able to run the GUI
version of emacs from a remote machine, you need to enable X11
forwarding by adding the following line to /etc/sshd_config:
X11Forwarding yes
The script /usr/bin/make-emacs-shortcut can be used to create a shortcut
for starting emacs. The shortcut starts emacs under X if an X server is
running and in a mintty window otherwise. Edit the shortcut and/or the
script if you want different behavior.
You will need the cygutils package to run the script, and you will need
mintty and run2 to use the shortcut. In addition, the user who runs the
script needs to be able to write to /usr/local/bin.
Ken Brown
Cygwin emacs maintainer
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