On 2020-11-27, Eliot Moss wrote: > On 11/26/2020 3:38 PM, Oleksandr Gavenko via Cygwin wrote: > >> I believe that X server under Windows is only to write cool blog posts, that >> we are able to run "xterm" )) > > Not sure what you mean here. I run Cygwin's X server and run xterm/bash > windows and Emacs that way.
On daily basis? Why not mintty and emacs-w32? Originally (2006-2012) I used native Windows Emacs + cygwin-mount.el. There were compatibility issues, most struggles came from Emacs dependency on external utilities to be fully functional (like search across files). Cygwin environment gave those utilities. Later in 2016 I had to work with Windows again and I discovered: https://cygwin.com/packages/summary/emacs-w32.html This package provides emacs binaries that use the native Windows GUI for display. Hooray! Good bye "cygwin-mount.el"! I maintain "e" command to open everything in Emacs: http://hg.defun.work/utils/file/tip/emacs It simplifies jump from Windows CLI to Cygwin Emacs. And recently Gradle 5.2 fixed escape sequence handling in Mintty, making it great again: https://docs.gradle.org/5.2/release-notes.html Gradle now detects when it is running from Mintty on Windows and enables the rich console. Mintty is a popular terminal emulator used by projects such as Cygwin and Git for Windows. > I was just indicating that (provided DISPLAY=:0.0 is set, as you pointed out) > WSL X apps play fine > with the Cygwin X server. > OK. No problem. I was surprised that you are using X Window from Cygwin for xterm + Emacs when there are stronger alternatives. At least you don't need to deal with env var DISPLAY. For "mintty" there is an issue with TERM=mintty which is not supported on most remote hosts. I fixed it in ~/.bashrc recently by: case $TERM in mintty*) alias ssh='TERM=xterm ssh' ;; esac Note that I need TERM=mintty for Gradle to work properly. With TERM=xterm Gradle sends unprocessible garbage to terminal... >> Thanks god Cygwin is able to mount WSL's roots via P9 network file system. > > Not sure what P9 is :-) .. > Here it is: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/whats-new-for-wsl-in-windows-10-version-1903/ >> PS. As you haven't CCed me I had to check GNUS + Gmane again. Haven't read >> news for 3 years, found out that Lars Ingebrigtsen fucked up with domain >> transfer. > > ?? When people post to Cygwin, I assume that are also subscribed and will > get a response from > there, and don't need _two_ emails. But I am sending this one both places. > I also have not read > net news in years - shouldn't be necessary if you're willing to receive > Cygwin notes by email. > I planned to read email archive week later to see responses as I didn't want to subscribe to any mail list. So: * I will know about responses a week later. * I wouldn't reply to any respond as I have to retrieve/inject Message-Id to maintain message chain. For this I used MarkMail WEB form or some other offer in the past but experience was confusing. As I understand it is not possible to specify me as additional recipient via headers To/Cc/Bcc/Replay-To if you are in a land of email lists. I remember some articles recommended to ask about inclusion of my email in addition to list address - the only solution we have (( Now that I found Gmane bridge working again (I had to alter Gmane connection endpoint to "news.gmane.io") at least I can reply without issues when not subscribed to the list! -- http://defun.work/ -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
