Re: Cut and paste in Cygwin XEmacs

On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 18:19:31 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

>>>>>> "RMM" == RMM  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
>     RMM> Can anyone suggest a release of cygwin XEmacs that's still
>     RMM> easy to install but relatively free of serious problems?
> 
> All of them.  But you have to revert your Cygwin installation.
> 
> Not a happy suggestion, either, I know.  But the guy who does most of
> this work for us got badly burned by Cygwin churn about a year or so
> ago, and has been unwilling to update until he gets time to deal with
> Cygwin changes on top of any XEmacs issues.  Unfortunately, his
> employer has lots of work for him, too....
> 
> We really need more people hacking on XEmacs for Windows.

Given that,  it's a shame that 2 versions have to be maintained (not
to mention the MinGW version,  and of course the emacs versions).
In theory,  the cygwin version makes a lot of sense for people who
are primarily unix users (like myself),  and in practice the whole
cygwin system works surprisingly well for some things.  However,  
getting that last 1% to work ...

For me,  the main distinction between the cygwin and the native 
versions is path handling.  I'd probably be pretty happy with 
native XEmacs if there were a global switch that made it deal
with file names exactly like the cygwin version does.  I don't
suppose that's in the works though.