Re: Help with setting Cygwin's Emacs W32 TRAMP to WSL 1

2020-11-28 Thread Oleksandr Gavenko via Cygwin
On 2020-11-27, Eliot Moss wrote: > On 11/26/2020 3:38 PM, Oleksandr Gavenko via Cygwin wrote: > >> I believe that X server under Windows is only to write cool blog posts, that >> we are able to run "xterm" )) > > Not sure what you mean here. I run Cygwin's X server and run xterm/bash > windows a

Re: Help with setting Cygwin's Emacs W32 TRAMP to WSL 1

2020-11-27 Thread Eliot Moss
On 11/26/2020 3:38 PM, Oleksandr Gavenko via Cygwin wrote: I believe that X server under Windows is only to write cool blog posts, that we are able to run "xterm" )) Not sure what you mean here. I run Cygwin's X server and run xterm/bash windows and Emacs that way. I was just indicating tha

Re: Help with setting Cygwin's Emacs W32 TRAMP to WSL 1

2020-11-26 Thread Oleksandr Gavenko via Cygwin
On 2020-11-26, Eliot Moss wrote: > Lacks UI? You can run X windows applications in WSL if you have the Cygwin X > server running :-) ... > then you get the X UI. I can certainly run xterm and emacs that way. > I don't need 2 Emacs instances around. Cygwin's Emacs W32 (with native W32 GUI widget

Re: Help with setting Cygwin's Emacs W32 TRAMP to WSL 1

2020-11-26 Thread Oleksandr Gavenko via Cygwin
On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 9:22 PM Oleksandr Gavenko wrote: > So Emacs tries to make some "smart" locking on dumb FS... Need to > waste another few hours to make Emacs work. > Found the problem: Emacs fails on its "unlock-buffer" call from emacs/src/filelock.c. Feature described here: https://www.g

Re: Help with setting Cygwin's Emacs W32 TRAMP to WSL 1

2020-11-26 Thread Oleksandr Gavenko via Cygwin
On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 8:42 PM Henry S. Thompson wrote: > > Oleksandr Gavenko via Cygwin writes: > > > ... > > WSL1 files are "hidden" for regular access. > > I probably misunderstand, but I can see my WSL/Ubuntu files via this > path from Cygwin: > > /c/Users/ht/AppData/Local/Packages/Canonical

Re: Help with setting Cygwin's Emacs W32 TRAMP to WSL 1

2020-11-26 Thread Henry S. Thompson via Cygwin
Oleksandr Gavenko via Cygwin writes: > ... > WSL1 files are "hidden" for regular access. I probably misunderstand, but I can see my WSL/Ubuntu files via this path from Cygwin: /c/Users/ht/AppData/Local/Packages/CanonicalGroupLimited.../LocalState/rootfs ht -- Henry S. Thompson, School

Re: Help with setting Cygwin's Emacs W32 TRAMP to WSL 1

2020-11-26 Thread Eliot Moss
On 11/26/2020 10:18 AM, Oleksandr Gavenko via Cygwin wrote: > Still WSL 1 lacks UI and integrates less smoothly into my workflow > to replace Cygwin's amazing Emacs W32. Lacks UI? You can run X windows applications in WSL if you have the Cygwin X server running :-) ... then you get the X UI.