* RE: Text editors under Cygnus
@ 2001-07-23 12:07 Glen Coakley
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From: Glen Coakley @ 2001-07-23 12:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
> Glen Coakley wrote:
>
> > If you would like a lighter version (no X code):
> >
> > http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/ntemacs.html
> > ( http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html )
> >
> > It doesn't run 'under' Cygnus but it does run on Windows
> and the FAQ lists
> > where to get a small lisp module that will teach it to
> understand Cygwin
> > mounts and paths.
>
>
> I don't want to get into a "my-emacs-is-better" flamewar --
> both NTEmacs
> and XEmacs are great packages. However, I do want to clear up a
> misunderstanding:
>
> Despite the name "XEmacs", the packages built for windows and
> for cygwin
> do NOT require an Xserver. In fact, they don't contain the X code at
> all. (You *can* build an X-based XEmacs for cygwin, but the official
> package is not built that way).
>
> --Chuck
Thanks for correcting that. I made an assumption about what caused XEmacs to
load on my system. The 'lighter version' comments stands. XEmacs (OOTB)
loads much slower then Emacs. I will stop guessing as to why.
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* RE: Text editors under Cygnus
2001-07-23 19:37 ` Jonadab the Unsightly One
@ 2001-07-24 3:43 ` Michael Schaap
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From: Michael Schaap @ 2001-07-24 3:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
At 04:36 24-7-2001, Jonadab the Unsightly One wrote:
>..., but as far as that
>goes it's _possible_ to write code that will work
>in either C or Perl ...
<OFFTOPIC>
That one's easy. ;-)
#define sub int
#ifdef i_am_perl
main();
#endif
sub main()
{
printf("Hello, World!\n");
}
</OFFTOPIC>
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* RE: Text editors under Cygnus
2001-07-23 10:44 Robinow, David
@ 2001-07-23 19:37 ` Jonadab the Unsightly One
2001-07-24 3:43 ` Michael Schaap
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From: Jonadab the Unsightly One @ 2001-07-23 19:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
# The X in Xemacs does not refer to the X window system.
It did originally. But these days both Emacs and XEmacs
can be compiled and used either with or without X. One
vs the other is a tradeoff: XEmacs version releases
are a step ahead of the FSF's Emacs releases, but
more elisp packages work in Emacs than in XEmacs.
What is unfortunate is that the two are fairly
mutually incompatible; it is _possible_ to write
lisp that will work in either, but as far as that
goes it's _possible_ to write code that will work
in either C or Perl -- but it's an exercise in
adaptive engineering.
I use Emacs because it's what I started using
when I wasn't clear on the differences, and now
I have megabytes of lisp I don't want to port.
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* Re: Text editors under Cygnus
2001-07-23 11:23 ` Charles Wilson
2001-07-23 12:24 ` Christopher Faylor
@ 2001-07-23 16:28 ` Michael Schaap
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From: Michael Schaap @ 2001-07-23 16:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
At 20:22 23-7-2001, Charles Wilson wrote:
>That little discrepancy is rather disconcerting, even to a long-time
>XEmacs user like me. The older cygwin-xemacs-21.1.13 package works
>'cygwin-style' both in the (custom built) file-open dialog and in the
>minibuffer. I don't know why the change was made in 21.4.x -- probably an
>mswin-related improvement that bled over to cygwin. It didn't bother me
>enough to complain (or code) about it.
Wouldn't it be cool if there were a Cygwin library (cygctl.dll) which was
API compatible with the Windows file dialogs, so you could just compile and
link your apps (like XEmacs) against it and get nice Windows-style dialogs
with Cygwin-style paths?
But I should shut up, since I have no intention to write this myself. :-)
- Michael
(Now a Cygwin version of gvim (not an X version), that would really be
useful. Perhaps, if I ever have some time, and 6.0 is out, I will try to
do a port.)
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* Re: Text editors under Cygnus
2001-07-23 11:23 ` Charles Wilson
@ 2001-07-23 12:24 ` Christopher Faylor
2001-07-23 16:28 ` Michael Schaap
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From: Christopher Faylor @ 2001-07-23 12:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 02:22:54PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
>Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
>
>
>> And I'll just follow-up on Chuck's comment by pointing out that XEmacs,
>> because it can be built on Cygwin, automatically understands all the
>> niceties of the Cygwin environment (like mounts, symlinks, etc) by
>> default.
>
>Bad Larry. No cookie. I said no emacs partisanship flamewar. <g>
>
>However, you DO have to be honest. While in cygwin-xemacs-21.4.3, the
>^x-^f file open command (where you type in the name of the file to open
>in the minibuffer) works with cygwin-style paths, the 'Open' toolbar
>button does NOT. The toolbar button activates the windows DLL-based
>'File Open' dialog, even in the cygwin build. Since that dialog comes
>from the windows system libs (comctl.dll? I dunno) it does not and
>cannot understand cygwin-style paths.
>
>That little discrepancy is rather disconcerting, even to a long-time
>XEmacs user like me. The older cygwin-xemacs-21.1.13 package works
>'cygwin-style' both in the (custom built) file-open dialog and in the
>minibuffer. I don't know why the change was made in 21.4.x -- probably
>an mswin-related improvement that bled over to cygwin. It didn't bother
>me enough to complain (or code) about it.
That's interesting. I believe that Insight has/had/will-have/may-have
a similar problem.
cgf
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* Re: Text editors under Cygnus
2001-07-23 11:09 ` Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
@ 2001-07-23 11:23 ` Charles Wilson
2001-07-23 12:24 ` Christopher Faylor
2001-07-23 16:28 ` Michael Schaap
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From: Charles Wilson @ 2001-07-23 11:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
Cc: Glen Coakley, 'dominic@herard.net', cygwin
Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
> And I'll just follow-up on Chuck's comment by pointing out that XEmacs,
> because it can be built on Cygwin, automatically understands all the
> niceties of the Cygwin environment (like mounts, symlinks, etc) by
> default.
Bad Larry. No cookie. I said no emacs partisanship flamewar. <g>
However, you DO have to be honest. While in cygwin-xemacs-21.4.3, the
^x-^f file open command (where you type in the name of the file to open
in the minibuffer) works with cygwin-style paths, the 'Open' toolbar
button does NOT. The toolbar button activates the windows DLL-based
'File Open' dialog, even in the cygwin build. Since that dialog comes
from the windows system libs (comctl.dll? I dunno) it does not and
cannot understand cygwin-style paths.
That little discrepancy is rather disconcerting, even to a long-time
XEmacs user like me. The older cygwin-xemacs-21.1.13 package works
'cygwin-style' both in the (custom built) file-open dialog and in the
minibuffer. I don't know why the change was made in 21.4.x -- probably
an mswin-related improvement that bled over to cygwin. It didn't bother
me enough to complain (or code) about it.
--Chuck
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* Re: Text editors under Cygnus
2001-07-23 10:04 ` Charles Wilson
@ 2001-07-23 11:09 ` Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
2001-07-23 11:23 ` Charles Wilson
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From: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) @ 2001-07-23 11:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Charles Wilson, Glen Coakley; +Cc: 'dominic@herard.net', cygwin
At 01:03 PM 7/23/2001, Charles Wilson wrote:
>Glen Coakley wrote:
>
>>If you would like a lighter version (no X code):
>> http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/ntemacs.html
>>( http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html )
>>It doesn't run 'under' Cygnus but it does run on Windows and the FAQ lists
>>where to get a small lisp module that will teach it to understand Cygwin
>>mounts and paths.
>
>
>I don't want to get into a "my-emacs-is-better" flamewar -- both NTEmacs and XEmacs are great packages. However, I do want to clear up a misunderstanding:
>
>Despite the name "XEmacs", the packages built for windows and for cygwin do NOT require an Xserver. In fact, they don't contain the X code at all. (You *can* build an X-based XEmacs for cygwin, but the official package is not built that way).
And I'll just follow-up on Chuck's comment by pointing out that XEmacs,
because it can be built on Cygwin, automatically understands all the
niceties of the Cygwin environment (like mounts, symlinks, etc) by
default.
Larry
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* RE: Text editors under Cygnus
@ 2001-07-23 10:44 Robinow, David
2001-07-23 19:37 ` Jonadab the Unsightly One
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From: Robinow, David @ 2001-07-23 10:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
You're somewhat confused. The X in Xemacs does not refer to the X window
system.
It is a configuration option whether to include X support and I would guess
that most people do not include X when building under Cygwin.
I have both. emacs-20.7/bin/emacs.exe is 3769006 bytes and the stripped
xemacs-21.4.3.exe is 4150272 bytes, hardly enough difference to prefer one
over the other.
However, there are packages which only run on one or the other. Pick your
favorite.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Glen Coakley [ mailto:gcoakley@mqsoftware.com ]
> Subject: RE: Text editors under Cygnus
> If you would like a lighter version (no X code):
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/ntemacs.html
> ( http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html )
>
> It doesn't run 'under' Cygnus but it does run on Windows and
> the FAQ lists
> where to get a small lisp module that will teach it to
> understand Cygwin
> mounts and paths.
>
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* Re: Text editors under Cygnus
2001-07-23 8:35 Glen Coakley
@ 2001-07-23 10:04 ` Charles Wilson
2001-07-23 11:09 ` Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
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From: Charles Wilson @ 2001-07-23 10:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Glen Coakley; +Cc: 'dominic@herard.net', cygwin
Glen Coakley wrote:
> If you would like a lighter version (no X code):
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/ntemacs.html
> ( http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html )
>
> It doesn't run 'under' Cygnus but it does run on Windows and the FAQ lists
> where to get a small lisp module that will teach it to understand Cygwin
> mounts and paths.
I don't want to get into a "my-emacs-is-better" flamewar -- both NTEmacs
and XEmacs are great packages. However, I do want to clear up a
misunderstanding:
Despite the name "XEmacs", the packages built for windows and for cygwin
do NOT require an Xserver. In fact, they don't contain the X code at
all. (You *can* build an X-based XEmacs for cygwin, but the official
package is not built that way).
--Chuck
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* RE: Text editors under Cygnus
@ 2001-07-23 8:35 Glen Coakley
2001-07-23 10:04 ` Charles Wilson
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From: Glen Coakley @ 2001-07-23 8:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 'dominic@herard.net', cygwin
If you would like a lighter version (no X code):
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/ntemacs.html
( http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html )
It doesn't run 'under' Cygnus but it does run on Windows and the FAQ lists
where to get a small lisp module that will teach it to understand Cygwin
mounts and paths.
________________________________
Glen Coakley, Sr. Software Engineer
MQSoftware Inc., (763) 543-4845
"Tinkero ergo sum." -- Chuck Murcko
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dominic@herard.net [ mailto:dominic@herard.net ]
> Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2001 7:14 AM
> To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: Text editors under Cygnus
>
>
> Dear Sirs,
> Where can I obtain a full-featured text editor (like
> Emacs) that runs under Cygnus?
> Sincerely,
> Dominic Herard
>
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* Re: Text editors under Cygnus
2001-07-22 5:13 dominic
@ 2001-07-22 9:39 ` Charles Wilson
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From: Charles Wilson @ 2001-07-22 9:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: dominic; +Cc: cygwin
dominic@herard.net wrote:
> Dear Sirs,
> Where can I obtain a full-featured text editor (like Emacs) that runs under Cygnus?
> Sincerely,
http://www.xemacs.org/
They have a setup.exe-based installed that can install a cygwin version
of XEmacs-21.4.3 along with all desired lisp packages. Very nice.
--Chuck
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* Text editors under Cygnus
@ 2001-07-22 5:14 dominic
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From: dominic @ 2001-07-22 5:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
Dear Sirs,
Where can I obtain a full-featured text editor (like Emacs) that runs under Cygnus?
Sincerely,
Dominic Herard
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* Text editors under Cygnus
@ 2001-07-22 5:13 dominic
2001-07-22 9:39 ` Charles Wilson
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From: dominic @ 2001-07-22 5:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
Dear Sirs,
Where can I obtain a full-featured text editor (like Emacs) that runs under Cygnus?
Sincerely,
Dominic Herard
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