Pending Packages List, 2003-12-19

Dr. Volker Zell Dr.Volker.Zell@oracle.com
Mon Dec 29 11:44:00 GMT 2003


>>>>> "Charles" == Charles Wilson writes:

    Charles> Reini Urban wrote:
    >>> ITP: xemacs  [2003-12-12]
    >>> Description: A powerful, highly customizable open source text
    >>> editor and application development system
    >>> Proposer: Dr. Volker Zell
    >>> ITP: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-12/msg00165.txt
    >>> Also: xemacs-sumo  [XEmacs standard packages]
    >>> Also: xemacs-mule-sumo  [XEmacs MULE (MUlti Lingual Emacs)
    >>> packages]
    >>> Status: ITP posted. Attained required 3 votes.
    >>> HOLD-UPS: No package, nothing to review!
    >> maybe it should be stated, that this is the X Windows version, and
    >> not the Win32 version, which comes with the xemacs windows setup.

    Charles> No, I believe Dr. Zell built this with *both* --with-X and
    Charles> --with-mswindows, so it will work in "native" ms mode or in X11
    Charles> mode. I'm not sure how you tell it, at runtime, which way to behave --
    Charles> but I assume that will be explained in the package README.

Just unset your DISPLAY variable before running XEmacs and you'll get the
native mode.

    Charles> Chuck

Ciao
  Volker



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