> From: gustav <gus...@indiana.edu> > Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:50:53 -0500 (EST) > > > If you still use Emacs' original Rmail with POP under Cygwin, you may > have noticed that it doesn't work. The reason is that Rmail tries to > create a file with a ":" in its name, which Cygwin can't do. A simple > remedy is to edit rmail.el as follows: > > *** /usr/share/emacs/21.2/lisp/mail/rmail.el Fri Feb 22 05:51:38 2002 > --- rmail.el Thu Dec 11 21:26:14 2008 > *************** > *** 1502,1508 **** > (if rmail-pop-password-required > (progn (setq got-password (not (rmail-have-password))) > (setq password (rmail-get-pop-password)))) > ! (if (eq system-type 'windows-nt) > ;; cannot have "po:" in file name > (setq tofile > (expand-file-name > --- 1502,1508 ---- > (if rmail-pop-password-required > (progn (setq got-password (not (rmail-have-password))) > (setq password (rmail-get-pop-password)))) > ! (if (or (eq system-type 'windows-nt) (eq system-type 'cygwin)) > ;; cannot have "po:" in file name > (setq tofile > (expand-file-name
Emacs 22.1 (released in June 2007) and later already includes this fix. I guess this is an ample opportunity to call for volunteers to come on board and help maintaining the Cygwin build of Emacs. As of now, the Cygwin build has some known ``stability issues'' (read: it sometimes crashes during the build or in routine operation), and there's no one on the Emacs development team who has enough knowledge and/or time to fix these Cygwin-specific problems. If things are left in their current shape, the upcoming Emacs 23, a major new release with much better Unicode support and other important new features, such as multi-tty, will be released without any systematic Cygwin support, which in practice means it will probably not work too well. If you feel like volunteering, please write to emacs-de...@gnu.org. P.S. It is much more Lisp'y and slightly more efficient to say (if (memq system-type '(windows-nt cygwin)) than to say (if (or (eq system-type 'windows-nt) (eq system-type 'cygwin)) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
