Re: emacs-everywhere

2022-03-06 Thread Eliot Moss
On 3/6/2022 9:00 PM, Russell VT wrote: Eliot - Are you running Thunderbird under Cygwin (ie. in an "X" environment?), or are you running it directly from Windows? Thanks for responding, Russell. Directly under Windows. Can it run under Cygwin? I am running Cygwin/X with emacs, xterm, okular

Re: emacs-everywhere

2022-03-06 Thread Russell VT
Eliot - Are you running Thunderbird under Cygwin (ie. in an "X" environment?), or are you running it directly from Windows? For reference for those of us that may not be familiar with xdotool... it mimics X11 Client responses. GitHub - https://github.com/jordansissel/xdotool ManPage - http:/

emacs-everywhere

2022-03-06 Thread Eliot Moss
Dear Cygwiners - I use Thunderbird as my email tool, and in older versions I could arrange to invoke emacs as an external editor, edit my mail, save and exit emacs, and the edited mail would be there in Thunderbird. I have seen recommendations to use emacs-everywhere to get something like this

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xz 5.2.5-1

2022-03-06 Thread Achim Gratz
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * xz-5.2.5-1 * liblzma5-5.2.5-1 * liblzma-devel-5.2.5-1 XZ Utils is free general-purpose data compression software with high compression ratio. XZ Utils are the successor to LZMA Utils. This is an update to the latest upstr

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: pkgconf 1.8.0-1

2022-03-06 Thread Achim Gratz
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * pkgconf-1.8.0-1 * libpkgconf3-1.8.0-1 * libpkgconf-devel-1.8.0-1 * pkg-config-1.8.0-1 pkgconf is a program which helps to configure compiler and linker flags for development frameworks. It is an alternative to pkg-config.

Re: Would it be possible to update the bash package?

2022-03-06 Thread Zartaj Majeed
Does bash 5.1 crash in cygwin? Please let us know so we can help - bash 4.4 is now over 5 years old On 3/5/2021 2:23 PM, Christoph Reiter wrote: On Fri, Mar 5, 2021 at 5:50 PM L A Walsh wrote: Really I don't see a compelling reason there should be any hurry to update. In my own test

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Test: lua-5.4.4-1

2022-03-06 Thread Lemures Lemniscati via Cygwin-announce
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * lua-5.4.4-1 * liblua5.4-5.4.4-1 * liblua-devel-5.4.4-1 * lua-5.4.4-1-src * lua-debuginfo-5.4.4-1 -- Lua is a powerful, light-weight programming language designed for extending applications. Lua is also frequently used as a g