From 2476ec9bdfdb5f626f1d06bc13a8d2ef5b17caae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Corinna Vinschen Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:16:27 +0000 Subject: * faq-using.xml (faq.using.emacs): Update. --- winsup/doc/ChangeLog | 4 ++++ winsup/doc/faq-using.xml | 10 ++++++++-- 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/winsup/doc/ChangeLog b/winsup/doc/ChangeLog index 9be113583..910f970bc 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/winsup/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2009-06-12 Ken Brown + + * faq-using.xml (faq.using.emacs): Update. + 2009-06-04 Corinna Vinschen * new-features.sgml: Add changes to console BS and Space key. diff --git a/winsup/doc/faq-using.xml b/winsup/doc/faq-using.xml index 0830ef073..41eb14624 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/faq-using.xml +++ b/winsup/doc/faq-using.xml @@ -820,8 +820,14 @@ interfere with the normal functioning of Cygwin. Is there a Cygwin port of GNU Emacs? -Yes. It uses the X11 (http://cygwin.com/xfree/) GUI. Right now the package is old and outdated. -Consider using XEmacs for now. +Yes. Install the emacs package. This provides everything you +need in order to run GNU emacs in a terminal window. If you also want +to be able to use the X11 +(http://cygwin.com/xfree/) +GUI, install the emacs-X11 package. In either case, you run emacs by +typing 'emacs' or '/usr/bin/emacs'. If you run emacs in the cygwin +console, be sure that your CYGWIN environment variable contains tty. +See /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/emacs.README for further information. -- cgit v1.2.3