From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7668 invoked by alias); 16 May 2011 07:27:00 -0000 Received: (qmail 7658 invoked by uid 22791); 16 May 2011 07:26:57 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_40,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtprelay03.ispgateway.de (HELO smtprelay03.ispgateway.de) (80.67.29.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 16 May 2011 07:26:42 +0000 Received: from [80.67.16.114] (helo=localhost) by smtprelay03.ispgateway.de with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1QLsCO-0002pZ-9u for cygwin@cygwin.com; Mon, 16 May 2011 09:26:40 +0200 Received: from pc51997.uni-regensburg.de (pc51997.uni-regensburg.de [132.199.174.149]) by webmail.df.eu (Horde Framework) with HTTP; Mon, 16 May 2011 09:26:40 +0200 Message-ID: <20110516092640.19612356500m5by8@webmail.df.eu> Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 07:27:00 -0000 From: Markus Hoenicka To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Using Cygwin Emacs References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; DelSp="Yes"; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: domainFACTORY X-Df-Sender: 472582 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2011-05/txt/msg00227.txt.bz2 Ken Brown was heard to say: > There are plenty of Cygwin users who use (Cygwin's) emacs. I don't > understand your last two questions. What do you mean by the "default > 23.2 zip package"? But if you want to know what it's like to use > Cygwin's emacs package instead of whatever you're using now, why not > just try it? > > I assume "23.2 zip package" refers to the native NTEmacs port of GNU Emacs. I've used this port in the past mainly because it offers file drag&drop support. However, I came across serious speed issues of this port (see http://www.mhoenicka.de/system-cgi/blog/index.php?itemid=2022) so I'd also recommend to use Cygwin's emacs. Works out of the box over here. regards, Markus -- Markus Hoenicka http://www.mhoenicka.de AQ score 38 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple