Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu> writes: > I think the alternatives system should work fine for most users. > > The problem you've described occurs only in the following situation: > > 1. You install both emacs-X11 and emacs-w32.
At the moment emacs-X11 has a higher priority than emacs-w32. All things considered, giving emacs-w32 priority over emacs-X11 seems to be more generally useful on Cygwin than the other way around. I've done this locally and simply change EDITOR on X11 startup when I have to use it. Regards, Achim. -- 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