From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12720 invoked by alias); 4 May 2014 11:53:22 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-announce-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-announce-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Cygwin Mailing List Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-announce@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 11357 invoked by uid 89); 4 May 2014 11:49:55 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=2.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_PASS,UNSUBSCRIBE_BODY autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: limerock01.mail.cornell.edu X-CornellRouted: This message has been Routed already. Message-ID: <53662959.3020105@cornell.edu> Date: Sun, 04 May 2014 11:53:00 -0000 From: Ken Brown User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-announce Subject: Updated: emacs-24.3.90-1 [TEST] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2014-05/txt/msg00001.txt.bz2 The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution as test releases: *** emacs-24.3.90-1 *** emacs-X11-24.3.90-1 *** emacs-w32-24.3.90-1 *** emacs-el-24.3.90-1 Emacs is a powerful, customizable, self-documenting, modeless text editor. Emacs contains special code editing features, a scripting language (elisp), and the capability to read mail, news, and more without leaving the editor. This is a pretest of the upcoming emacs-24.4. My hope is that, with this release, the crashes of emacs-w32 that have been reported (e.g., http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-04/msg00329.html) no longer occur. I have built the binaries without optimization to simplify debugging. CYGWIN NOTES ============ 1. The emacs, emacs-w32, and emacs-X11 packages each provide an emacs binary. These are emacs-nox.exe, emacs-w32.exe, and emacs-X11.exe, respectively, in order of increasing priority. The postinstall scripts use the `alternatives' system to create a symlink /usr/bin/emacs that resolves to the highest-priority binary that you have installed. Thus the command `emacs' will start emacs-X11.exe if you've installed the emacs-X11 package; otherwise, it will start emacs-w32.exe if you've installed emacs-w32; otherwise, it will start emacs-nox.exe. Similar remarks apply to emacsclient. If you have installed both emacs-w32 and emacs-X11 and prefer to give higher priority to emacs-w32, run the script /usr/bin/set-emacs-default-w32.sh You can later restore emacs-X11 as the default by running /usr/bin/set-emacs-default-X11.sh 2. Install emacs-X11 if you want to use the X11 GUI. You can then type `emacs&' in an xterm window, and emacs will start in a new window. 3. Install emacs-w32 if you want to use the native Windows GUI instead of X11. 4. If you have sshd running and want to be able to run emacs-X11 from a remote machine, you need to enable X11 forwarding by adding the following line to /etc/sshd_config: X11Forwarding yes You might also need to have the cygserver service running. 5. The script /usr/bin/make-emacs-shortcut can be used to create a shortcut for starting emacs. See /usr/share/doc/emacs/README.Cygwin for details. 6. The default font for emacs-w32 is not very attractive in my opinion. See /usr/share/doc/emacs/README.Cygwin for hints as to how to change it. 7. If you start emacs under X11 and it takes a long time to start or quits with a "memory exhausted" error, this might indicate that the font cache for the Windows Fonts directory is out of date (http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2014-04/msg00003.html). If this happens, try running the command fc-cache -sv `cygpath -W`/Fonts as administrator, to update the cache. Ken Brown Cygwin's emacs maintainer *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: cygwin-announce-unsubscribe-you=yourdomain.com@cygwin.com If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sourceware.org/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at the above URL.