On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 07:10:31PM -0700, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: >I was looking at the FAQ and realized some questions need an update. >I plan to do this. However, some of them I don't have the knowledge >to frame a correct updated answer. One I particularly noticed was: > >>Is there a Cygwin port of GNU Emacs? >> >>No. If you want NT Emacs to understand Cygwin paths, get cygwin-mount.el from >>http://www.emacswiki.org/elisp/index.html. >> >>If you want to run "emacs -nw", say from a remote login shell, you can't. (The >>error is "emacs: standard input is not a tty".) Instead, use a Cygwin version >>of XEmacs, from http://www.xemacs.org/. Using "xemacs -nw" from a remote shell > >>works fine. > >To be exact, I know that there is now a Cygwin version of GNU Emacs, that >XEmacs does not have a (setup.exe) Cygwin package, and that those URLs work. >However, I don't the status of GNU Emacs or NT Emacs in a remote login shell.
I haven't seen David Starks-Browning (FAQ maintainer) around lately but I suspect that he might be interested in fixing this. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
