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Re: style and mode on Window XP


From: David Combs
Subject: Re: style and mode on Window XP
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 04:42:33 +0000 (UTC)

In article <e4fe5c87-a3e2-47f7-af41-06c754b75a9e@g1g2000pra.googlegroups.com>,
Jason Rumney  <jasonrumney@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Jul 10, 9:45 am, dkco...@panix.com (David Combs) wrote:
>
>> But NTEMACS (the NT means the ancient "windows NT", the first windows os
>> that you could get things like emacs to work on) -- apparently it's a
>> *separate* emacs, specially hacked (not just compiled) for windows.
>
>You are confusing things. The native Windows port you are talking
>about is not separate, and the name ntemacs is obsolete, since it was
>merged with the main emacs repository almost 15 years ago.
>
>The version string "emacs 22.3.1 i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600" shows that the
>OP is already using the native port, and not a cygwin build.

I think we're agreeing, in a way.  This thing I call NTEMACS (and googled for 
under that name and downloaded to xt) is definitely NOT a cygwin emacs.

And, as you just said, M-x version said to this "NTemacs" gives:
   GNU Emacs 23.0.0.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2007-08-18 on TPAD

Cygwin DOES have an emacs, under that very name, and I sure did NOT
like it at all.

Anyway, I got "ntemacs", and really like it.  Goes full screen (the
cygwin one wouldn't), for one.  A biggie for me.


Probably this same executable goes under several names?

David




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