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| author | David Starks-Browning <starksb@ebi.ac.uk> | 2002-03-21 02:48:16 +0300 |
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| committer | David Starks-Browning <starksb@ebi.ac.uk> | 2002-03-21 02:48:16 +0300 |
| commit | ba2e67d1746a9ce56697b70bbafd5c3aa2bad2a4 (patch) | |
| tree | 426dbc3988a01a03bdb91d7f433020af4ff8fb03 /winsup | |
| parent | 3d27e4aaa5dff0d0d5b36f1b4f52bfcfad6898cb (diff) | |
new subsection "Is there a Cygwin port of GNU Emacs?" with pointer to
cygwin-mount.el, and details about "emacs -nw" vs. "xemacs -nw".
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| -rw-r--r-- | winsup/doc/how-using.texinfo | 11 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/winsup/doc/how-using.texinfo b/winsup/doc/how-using.texinfo index c714cb314..0abb24b2d 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/how-using.texinfo +++ b/winsup/doc/how-using.texinfo @@ -628,6 +628,17 @@ Emacs 21.1: 'comint-strip-ctrl-m) @end example +@subsection Is there a Cygwin port of GNU Emacs? + +No. If you want NT Emacs to understand Cygwin paths, get +cygwin-mount.el from @file{http://www.emacswiki.org/elisp/index.html}. + +If you want to run ``emacs -nw'', say from a remote login shell, you +can't. (The error is ``emacs: standard input is not a tty''.) +Instead, use a Cygwin version of XEmacs, from +@file{http://www.xemacs.org/}. Using ``xemacs -nw'' from a remote +shell works fine. + @subsection info error "dir: No such file or directory" Cygwin packages install their info documentation in the /usr/info |