Re: [h-e-w] allow cygwin emacs to use _emacs?

[Jason Rumney]

The code for using _emacs as an alternative for .emacs was originally 
conditional on DOS, where .emacs is not a valid filename. It was 
included in WINDOWSNT builds by popular demand by people upgrading from 
DOS Emacs to NT Emacs in early days of NT Emacs. I don't think the 
Cygwin maintainers will see as much need for supporting it as the 
NTEmacs maintainer did in the early days of NTEmacs, especiailly since 
the aims of the Cygwin team are to provide a GNU environment that is as 
close to GNU running on Linux as possible.

But anyway, this is the wrong place to make suggestions for the Cygwin 
developers. This is a user list for NT Emacs, and I am not sure that the 
Cygwin Emacs maintainer reads it.