Re: [h-e-w] Unix utilities for Emacs on MS Windows

[Guy Gascoigne-Piggford]

Lennart Borgman wrote:

> Guy Gascoigne-Piggford wrote:
>
> > True, and one of the reasons why I use NT Emacs rather than the 
> > cygwin port is that it fully understands Windows sytle naming 
> > conventions and drive identifiers.  Since everything has to be 
> > mounted under fake mount points with cygwin there really is quite a 
> > disjoint between the two.  Certainly not insurmountable, but annoying 
> > all the same.
>
>
> I was actually surprised when testing Cygwin now that I can do things 
> like "cd d:/some/dir" and "cd d:\\some\\dir". But you mean that the 
> Cygwin port of Emacs could not handle this path styles, or?
Huh? Well it looks like it's changed some since I last looked at it so 
perhaps I should just give it another try.

> > I've really not found a good free solution and so I still use MKS 
> > Toolkit.
>
>
> Too bad ;-)
It really is a very decent product and I've used it happily and reliably 
for many, many years.  If it ain't broke don't fix it :) 

> > As an aside, the realy stumbling block that I have with cygwin is 
> > that it's pty handling screws with the way that Java,  a the Java 
> > Service Wrapper and stdout interact.  Basically the combination works 
> > just fun under MKS sh and cmd.exe and doesn't under cygwin.  Very 
> > frustrating.
>
>
> Can you please explain more in detail what does not work? Could you 
> give examples?
Given our somewhat byzantine product setup, I'm not sure that that would 
end out being that useful since I don't think that the problem is that 
generic, I expect that I'll run into the problem again when I try out 
the latest cygwin, if I do I'll let you know :)

Guy


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