AW: New version of cygwin-mount.el

[David A. Cobb]

Is not the place for this discussion the NTEmacs community / mail-list?
IMHO, it's an emacs problem not a cygwin problem.

At 5/18/01 04:25 PM (Friday), klaus.berndl@sdm.de wrote:


> > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> > Von: David Starks-Browning [ mailto:starksb@ebi.ac.uk ]
> > Gesendet am: Freitag, 18. Mai 2001 21:35
> > An: cygwin@cygwin.com
> > Betreff: Re: New version of cygwin-mount.el
> >
> > On Friday 18 May 01, Christopher Faylor writes:
> > > On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 05:39:46PM +0200, klaus.berndl@sdm.de wrote:
> > > >This should be not so difficult: NTEmacs stores in the Registry of NT
> > > >(Win9X, Millenium analogous) under the key
> > > >"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/GNU/Emacs/emacs_dir" the root directory
> > > >where NTEmacs is installed, e.g.  D:\Programs\Editor\Emacs.  The
> > > >cygwin-setup-script could read this directory and add "site-lisp" and
> > > >then store cygwin-mount.el in the resulting directory.  If the
> > > >"site-lisp§ subdir does not exist it can savely create it. Example:
> > > >Root-directory of NTEmacs from Registry: D:\Programs\Editor\Emacs Then
> > > >the script should store cygwin-mount.el in
> > > >D:\Programs\Editor\Emacs\site-lisp.
> > > >
> > > >Would this be possible?
> > >
> > > Yep.  DJ's regtool program could read the registry.  The problem is what
> > > to do if the person isn't using NTemacs, though?  Should we put the file
> > > in a temporary directory?  Delete it?  I dunno.
> >
> > With all do respect to Klaus's elisp, this seems to stray a bit far
> > from Cygwin's remit.  If an NT-emacs user wants cygwin-mount.el, can't
> > they just download it, put it where it belongs, and edit their .emacs
> > (or _emacs) file?  Why should we expect setup.exe (or whatever) to
> > automate this?
> >
> > Or am I missing something?
>
>Maybe you are right. For me it doesn´t matter. Christopher asked if
>it could make sense to add cygwin-mount.el to the cygwin standard
>setup. I have answered for who it can make sense, namely for all
>NTEmacs _and_ cygwin users (unfortunately there is no really good
>cygwin-port for GNU Emacs, like for XEmacs).
>IMHO most of NTEmacs _and_ cygwin user can profit from cygwin-mount.el,
>so why not offer it with the cygwin setup if it is easy possible?
>
>Ok, if it should added to cygwin setup it should be done in the following
>manner (thanks also to Ehud Karni):
>1. Read with DJ's regtool the value of
>    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\GNU\Emacs\EMACSLOADPATH
>    (which is a ; separated list of directories)
>2. If the key exists (means NTEmacs is installed), then put
>    cygwin-mount.el in the first directory of this list.
>    If the key does not exist (means NTEmacs is not installed), then
>    do not install cygwin-mount.el, means simply ignore the setup for it.
>
>Cygwin-setup could also add at the end of the users .emacs file the following
>two lines:
>   (require 'cygwin-mount)
>   (cygwin-mount-activate)
>But i´m not sure if this a good idea and if this should be done 
>automatically???
>
>
>
>Klaus
>
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