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Updated: {emacs,emacs-X11,emacs-el}-23.3-1


New releases of the emacs, emacs-X11, and emacs-el packages (23.3-1) are now available, leaving 23.2-3 as previous.

CYGWIN NOTES
============
Install the emacs-X11 package if you want to use the X11 GUI. You can then type 'emacs&' in an xterm window, and emacs will start in a new window.


If you run emacs in the Cygwin console, be sure that your CYGWIN environment variable (http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-env.html) contains tty.

The script /usr/bin/make-emacs-shortcut can be used to create a shortcut for starting emacs. The shortcut starts emacs under X if an X server is running and in a mintty window otherwise. Edit the shortcut and/or the script if you want different behavior.

You will need the cygutils package to run the script, and you will need mintty and run2 to use the shortcut. In addition, the user who runs the script needs to be able to write to /usr/local/bin.

With this release and the release of Cygwin 1.7.8, all Cygwin-specific emacs bugs that I know of have been fixed. In particular, C-c C-c in an emacs shell buffer now interrupts the foreground process. Also, the time zone problem (requiring users to set TZ before starting emacs in order for display-time to work correctly) is fixed.

EMACS NEWS
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See http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ for a summary of new features since Emacs 23.2. You can also use the command 'C-h n' within emacs to browse the NEWS file.


DESCRIPTION
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Emacs is a powerful, customizable, self-documenting, modeless text editor. Emacs contains special code editing features, a scripting language (elisp), and the capability to read mail, news, and more without leaving the editor.


To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Then run setup and answer all the questions.

Ken Brown
Cygwin emacs maintainer

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