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Re: rootless cygwin emacs howto?
- From: Jason Dufair <jase at dufair dot org>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 12:47:11 -0500
- Subject: Re: rootless cygwin emacs howto?
- Organization: The Dufair Family
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- Reply-to: jase at dufair dot org
There is really nothing to it. Just get a recent version of X, run it
with -multiwindow (and, I recommend, -clipboard), and run Emacs. Voila!
Not sure if the currently packaged XWin.exe supports -multiwindow, but
the latest "Server Test Series", available from the Cygwin/XFree86
website, will do what you need (and is pretty stable).
Thomas L Roche <tlroche@us.ibm.com> writes:
> I've been running NTEmacs for awhile, and Cygwin for awhile, but have
> only occasionally used X. I'd like to cut over to the cygwinized
> Emacs if I can keep a single desktop, i.e. run X rootless. Could
> someone point me to a howto illustrating setup and running of the
> cygwin Emacs on X, rootlessly? (If possible, please also CC: me.)
> Apologies if this is a FAQ, but I tried Googling
>
> cygwin emacs rootless
>
> (i.e. not the phrase) and saw only claims that it can be done.
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