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Re: Cygwin newbie needs help
>>>>> "Charles" == Charles Wilson <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu> writes:
Charles> News from XEmacs land:
Charles> 1) there are two "windows" ports of XEmacs: a fully native port, and a
Charles> cygwin port.
Charles> 2) Both of these ports use so-called "native windowing": that is, they
Charles> use MSWindows GDI calls to paint their display. Neither port uses X;
Charles> they cannot be redirected (graphically) thru the network to display
Charles> remotely.
Charles> 3) If you want that capability, you can only do so with the cygwin
Charles> build -- but you'll have to build it yourself. Also, the
Charles> cygwin-with-X-windowing build has not been widely used (or tested).
Charles> It may have suffered bitrot.
I build it regularly since the legendary coolview days. Works perfect nowadays.
Charles> 4) I *believe* that both the native port and the cygwin port support
Charles> the '-nw' flag, which allows you to use XEmacs in a tty. Therefore,
Charles> it is probably possible, with the prebuilt native or cygwin versions
Charles> of xemacs, to ssh in to your windows box, and use 'xemacs -nw' to edit
Charles> files. (Of course, you need a working cygwin ssh daemon running on
Charles> your windows box, but that's a whole 'nother topic.)
Charles> --Chuck
Ciao
Volker
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