This is the mail archive of the
cygwin-apps
mailing list for the Cygwin project.
Emacs FAQ patch
- From: Ken Brown <kbrown at cornell dot edu>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:09:06 -0400
- Subject: Emacs FAQ patch
The attached patch brings the emacs FAQ entry up to date for cygwin 1.7.
Ken
--- faq-using.xml.orig 2009-06-11 16:18:19.000000000 -0400
+++ faq-using.xml 2009-06-12 08:21:42.403451200 -0400
@@ -820,8 +820,14 @@
<question><para>Is there a Cygwin port of GNU Emacs?</para></question>
<answer>
-<para>Yes. It uses the X11 (<ulink url="http://cygwin.com/xfree/";>http://cygwin.com/xfree/</ulink>) GUI. Right now the package is old and outdated.
-Consider using XEmacs for now.
+<para>Yes. Install the emacs package. This provides everything you
+need in order to run GNU emacs in a terminal window. If you also want
+to be able to use the X11
+(<ulink url="http://cygwin.com/xfree/";>http://cygwin.com/xfree/</ulink>)
+GUI, install the emacs-X11 package. In either case, you run emacs by
+typing 'emacs' or '/usr/bin/emacs'. If you run emacs in the cygwin
+console, be sure that your CYGWIN environment variable contains tty.
+See /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/emacs.README for further information.
</para>
</answer></qandaentry>