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Re: Text editors under Cygnus
- To: Charles Wilson <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>,Glen Coakley <gcoakley at mqsoftware dot com>
- Subject: Re: Text editors under Cygnus
- From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 14:08:15 -0400
- Cc: "'dominic at herard dot net'" <dominic at herard dot net>,cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <E1B42CFD544FD31193EE0000E87C5CE7E07F40@MAILSERVER2>
At 01:03 PM 7/23/2001, Charles Wilson wrote:
>Glen Coakley wrote:
>
>>If you would like a lighter version (no X code):
>>http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/ntemacs.html
>>(http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html)
>>It doesn't run 'under' Cygnus but it does run on Windows and the FAQ lists
>>where to get a small lisp module that will teach it to understand Cygwin
>>mounts and paths.
>
>
>I don't want to get into a "my-emacs-is-better" flamewar -- both NTEmacs and XEmacs are great packages. However, I do want to clear up a misunderstanding:
>
>Despite the name "XEmacs", the packages built for windows and for cygwin do NOT require an Xserver. In fact, they don't contain the X code at all. (You *can* build an X-based XEmacs for cygwin, but the official package is not built that way).
And I'll just follow-up on Chuck's comment by pointing out that XEmacs,
because it can be built on Cygwin, automatically understands all the
niceties of the Cygwin environment (like mounts, symlinks, etc) by
default.
Larry
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