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Re: Insight on Windows NT w/cygwin
On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 02:03:32PM -0400, John A. Turner wrote:
>>>>>> "CF" == Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com>:
>CF> Unfortunately, insight has always had only minimal ability to recognize
>CF> Cygwin paths. This is due to the fact that the tcl and tk DLLs are 98%
>CF> pure Windows and only the bare minimum support for cygwin paths
>CF> required to search for things like init.tcl, etc.
>
>could someone discuss the pros and cons of using a fully cygwin-aware
>version of tcl/tk? seems to me that's what most people using insight on
>cygwin would want anyway
>
>I just know that after using a native build of XEmacs for some time, I was
>much happier when I started using a cygwin build - seems it would be
>similar with insight
Pro: insight would be able to use all UNIX-like features of Cygwin.
Con: Somebody has to do it.
cgf