FAQ entries about emacs

Steffen Sledz sledz@zone42.org
Thu Feb 12 14:48:00 GMT 2009


Corinna Vinschen schrieb:
> can you do me a favor?  Can you have a look into the FAQ entries "Is
> there a Cygwin port of GNU Emacs?" and the next one "What about NT
> Emacs?" and suggest a rewrite? The information given in these two FAQ
> entries is certainly outdated, but I'm not quite sure how to rephrase
> them.  What especially bugs me is the reference to X11 which, as far as
> I know, is not correct for XEmacs.  Maybe (but that's just a vague idea
> from an Emacs non-user) it might be a good idea to pull the two FAQ
> entries together into one "Is there a Cygwin port of Emacs?" and just
> talk about XEmacs and GNU emacs, whatever the actual difference is.

As you know i'm fighting with another problem. That's why i'm toiling to publish an up-to-date GNU Emacs package. So please mention in FAQ 4.37 that the current package is very old and unstable.

In FAQ 4.38 you can refer to http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/windows/ and the README in this directory. Since emacs-21.3 there is an official, native GNU Emacs for Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista and Windows 95/98/Me.

Steffen



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