From: Nayuta Taga <ganaware+cygwin-apps@gmail.com>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [ITP] win-ssh-agent 1.07
Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2011 16:18:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANyrVWmo1NHaP+bQouN9sShLifcBSSRt2A2b7_ybntq5Kwjmdw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EB3F4F7.4070608@redhat.com>
2011/11/4 Corinna Vinschen:> On Nov 4 15:37, Nayuta Taga wrote:>> (1)
I want to use it because the cygwin emacs does not have its own>>
windows. The cygwin emacs works only in the terminal.> Try xemacs.
It has a Windows GUI fallback mode if there's no X display.
It's nice! I'll try it.
>> (2) I want to run it from the start menu or the Windows 7's task bar>> (not from the cygwin bash shell). It is the window's style to run>> applications.>> You can start it from the start menu via a bash script which pulls in> the SSH_* environment before starting emacs.
Yes, I can.
2011/11/4 Eric Blake:>>>>> With the win-ssh-agent, we can use the
ssh-agent (available inthe>>>>> cygwin openssh) in the more smart
way.>>>>> Normally, we need to start all relevant programs, which
mightneed to>> I'm not sure why your mail came through so garbled, but
the large number of> missing spaces in your message distracts from
your attempt to appear> professional in offering a package.
I'm sorry for missing spaces. I don't know why this happened ...
>> (3) I want to use the tramp ( http://www.gnu.org/s/tramp/ ) in the>> ntemacs. With it, I can treat documents on the remote machine>> as if they are on the local machine by:>> C-x C-f /sshx:username<at>hostname:~/remote-file>> Have you tried using the emacs that ships with cygwin? It includes> tramp.elc already built in, without needing a separate download.
The URL is just a information for someone who are not familiar withthe
tramp. I didn't download it from there.
> Unless you can give an example where an app in the cygwin distro would be> benefitted by adding a gui front-end to setting up the ssh-agent, and why> existing mechanisms of starting any cygwin app via a simple shell script> wrapper that attaches to $HOME/.keychain/${HOSTNAME}-sh if already present,> then I don't see why the cygwin distro needs win-ssh-agent. I'm not saying> that win-ssh-agent is bad (on the contrary, it does seem to help your use> case of ntemacs), just that since your primary use case demonstration was as> a stand-alone app for helping other non-cygwin apps, and not something that> fills a void for interaction with existing cygwin apps.
Ok. I understand why win-ssh-agent should be distributed
separatelyfrom the cygwin's distro.
Thanks for your valuable feedback. I withdraw this ITP.--
Nayuta Taga
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-04 16:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-03 11:20 Nayuta Taga
2011-11-03 13:52 ` Andrew Schulman
2011-11-04 3:04 ` Christopher Faylor
2011-11-04 6:37 ` Nayuta Taga
2011-11-04 9:44 ` Corinna Vinschen
2011-11-04 14:06 ` Thrall, Bryan
2011-11-04 14:22 ` Eric Blake
2011-11-04 16:18 ` Nayuta Taga [this message]
2011-11-04 16:36 ` 多賀奈由太
2011-11-06 5:21 ` Karl M
2011-11-06 5:30 ` Christopher Faylor
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