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- From: "Thomas L Roche" <tlroche at us dot ibm dot com>
- To: Chris Lott <chris at chrislott dot org>
- Cc: help-emacs-windows at gnu dot org, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 15:15:40 -0400
- Subject: cygwin, emacs, mozilla
Chris Lott <chris@chrislott.org> 10/24/2002 02:26 PM
> So, is there a significant advantage to running Emacs on Cygwin this
> way?
Yes, you get the availability of all (err, lots of :-) the tools that
emacs knows how to use and integrates well with, and a nicely-done
installer for same.
> I like the larger window and real-estate of the "windowed" version
> of Emacs,
Not necessarily connected: you can resize your shell window with its
properties. See
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?CygwinizedEmacsHOWTO
> so in order to run the Cygwin version I would have to fire up X
> every time whereas the NT port just runs, correct?
To run the X version, correct. This can be scripted: see
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?CygwinizedEmacsHOWTO
> How well does Mozilla run on Cygwin
That I don't know, but Moz says you can build Moz with Cygwin: see
http://www.mozilla.org/build/win32.html
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