Yes! It uses the X11 ('http://cygwin.com/xfree/') Windows interface. From a remote login shell, this "emacs -nw" works fine. There is also a non-X11 version which just provides the text-only terminal interface. Use Cygwin Setup to install either one (or both).

A GNU emacs 'matlab-mode' is available via anonymous ftp from csi.jpl.nasa.gov as pub/matlab/util/matlab-mode.el

ILISP is a powerful GNU-Emacs interface to many dialects of Lisp, including Lucid, Allegro, {A}KCL, IBCL, and CMU. Written by Chris McConnell <ccm+@cs.cmu.edu> and now maintained by Marco Antoniotti <marcoxa@cs.nyu.edu> and Rick Busdiecker <rfb@lehman.com>. It is available by anonymous ftp from h.gp.cs.cmu.edu:/usr/rfb/ilisp/ [128.2.254.156] as the file ilisp-5.6.tar.gz. It is also available in the CMU AI Repository in ftp.cs.cmu.

GNU Emacs and XEmacs are related open-source text editors. Both derive from GNU Emacs version 18; the split between the two happened in 1991 (for comparison, the oldest versions of GNU Emacs date from 1984). For information on GNU Emacs, see http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html.

Cygwin tools are, in the words of the Cygwin homepage, "ports of the popular GNU development tools and utilities for Windows 95, 98, and NT. They function by using the Cygwin library which provides a UNIX-like API on top of the Win32 API." Cygwin provides the compiler (gcc), libraries, headers, and other utilities which build and support the operation of Cygwin/X.

No not at the moment. The GNU Emacs bindings would be added as a compatibility file (gnu.emf) in much the same way that the me3.8 bindings are added, see me3_8.emf.

RTFM. Really, it's a great manual. Here's a list of commands that should allow you to use Emacs. The notation is pretty obvious, but it's explained in the manual anyway. M-w :Copy text between point and mark (point is the cursor. The selection is copied to the "kill ring"). M-y :cycle back through previous selection (try it after copying a few bits of text to see what I mean). C-h i :Go to Info mode (in Info mode, type m followed by a manual name, such as emacs to see that manual).

You should be using frames and abbrevs. Also check out the "desktop" feature. You should be answering mail with Emacs, probably with Gnus. Maybe registers as well, but I haven't started using them yet. Your .emacs should probably be 50 lines or more and should include a few simple functions attached to mode hooks etc.

The free software movement is something I care deeply about. The idea is that users of software should have rights as well, the right to use software how they wish, the right to adapt the software to their needs and to share improvements for the benefit of the user community. Big, proprietary, monopolistic companies like Microsoft are making this difficult in today's world, but there are alternatives.

The archives contain no less than three verilog modes for emacs: ftp.siliconlogic.com:/pub/comp.lang.verilog/verilog.el.Z Rick Eversole at Cadence maintains a verilog mode and occasionally posts it to comp.lang.verilog. At this time it supports only FSF 18.xx and Epoch. FSF 19.xx and Lucid Emacs (lemacs) are not supported. It is available at the archive site, or send email to eversole@cadence.com to request a copy if you have missed the posting and can not get it from the archive of comp.lang.

Gnu Emacs 18.55 (with Leonard N. Zubkoff's patches for SR10.2) seems to have a problem with shell subprocesses. At times the 0x0 character (displayed as ^@ by Emacs) appears in buffers running a shell. While this is only a nuisance running an inferior shell, it is a problem when running the M-x compile command: The C-x ' (next-error) function is unable to process the compiler output.

There are currently irreconcilable differences in the views about technical, programming, design and organizational matters between RMS and the XEmacs development team which provide little hope for a merge to take place in the short-term future. If you have a comment to add regarding the merge, it is a good idea to avoid posting to the newsgroups, because of the very heated flamewars that often result. Mail your questions to xemacs-beta@xemacs.org and bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu.

For a detailed description of the differences between GNU Emacs and XEmacs and a detailed history of XEmacs, check out the User-Visible Editing Features XEmacs in general tries hard to conform to exist user-interface standards, and to work "out-of-the-box" without the need for obscure customization changes. GNU Emacs, particularly version 21, has gotten better about this (in many cases by copying the XEmacs behavior!), but still has some weirdnesses.

Unfortunately even the naming of these two applications has become politicized. Much of this stems from RMS, who has a history of politicizing similar issues. (Compare the controversy over "Lignux" and "GNU/Linux".) We would prefer that the terms "XEmacs" and "GNU Emacs" be used, which are neutral and acceptable to most people. RMS, however, is not willing to accept these terms.

The Cygwin gcc compiler port seems to use the same object file format as Microsoft's Visual C/C++ compiler. So the Microsoft examples should work with the Cygwin compiler. One person has confirmed that it does, but I have not installed the Cygwin compiler to confirm this myself.

Actually, the Hurd developers want it to be ported to as many microkernels and architectures as possible. L4 seemed like a good choice because: The L4 microkernel is a modern microkernel, which takes the microkernel concept further than the first-generation microkernel Mach did. Basing the Hurd on L4 will bring more performance, better scalability, user space memory management, user space drivers, and other exciting features to the GNU/Hurd system.

For those who would like to use the Cygwin environment for development, yet generate non-Cygwin-dependant executables, a much easier option to "-mno-cygwin" does exist. Simply install Cygwin and the MinGW distribution in seperate directories (i.e. "C:\CYGWIN" and "C:\MINGW"), and make sure that the "/bin" subdirectory beneath your MinGW installation comes before Cygwin's "/bin" subdirectory in your PATH environment variable (i.e. "PATH=%PATH%;C:\MINGW\BIN;C:\CYGWIN\BIN").

Yes, Cygwin/X has a mailing list, namely, cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com. Visit the Cygwin Mailing Lists page to subscribe to cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com as well as to read and search an online archive of the mailing list traffic. Tip: Post your X-related inquires to cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com only; do not post nor cross post your inquires to the cygwin@cygwin.com mailing list. Cygwin's mailing list is only for Cygwin related inquires that are not handled by another more-specific list.

The Cygwin/X User's Guide thoroughly documents the installation process. Installation is performed through Cygwin's setup.exe program.

Only submit patches that have UNIX end of line characters. See Q: 10.2. for information on editors for Windows that are aware of UNIX end of line characters. Generally it is better for us if you generate your patches against the X.org CVS tree. For example, run cvs -z4 diff -U3 hw/xwin/ from xc/programs/Xserver/ to generate a diff file for all the modified files in hw/xwin/.

See SGML for Windows NT: Setting up a free SGML editing and publishing system on Windows NT/Cygwin by Markus Hoenicka.

GNU is an acronym for Gnu's Not Unix. A gnu is a large beast and is the motif of the Free Software Foundation (FSF). GNU is a 'recursive' acronym. Richard Stallman is the founder of the FSF and the creator of the GNU General Public License. One of the purposes of the FSF is to promote and develop free alternatives to proprietary software. The GNU project is an effort to create a free Unix-like operating system from scratch and was started in 1984.

GNU Chess is text based, open source chess engine. It provides the logic for controling the computer's moves when playing the computer. It will give you a far more challenging game of chess than any engine I might try to create.

If you would like to use Gnu utilities for compiling, and for general environment feel, you can do it. Start by adding the following line to the end of your .cshrc file: This should set you up to use all of the gnu utilities rather than the Sun-supplied complements. Please be aware that /usr/um/gnu/bin also contains replacements for commonly used Unix utilities such as find, ls, and grep.

Debian GNU/Linux is a particular distribution of the Linux operating system, and numerous packages that run on it. In principle, users could obtain the Linux kernel via the Internet or from elsewhere, and compile it themselves. They could then obtain source code for many applications in the same way, compile the programs, then install them into their systems. For complicated programs, this process can be not only time-consuming but error-prone.

A list of packages which are still needed to be packaged for Debian exists, the Work-Needing and Prospective Packages list. For more details about adding the missing things, see How can I become a Debian software developer?, Section 12.1. Debian Policy requires that such symbolic links (to libfoo.so.x.y.z or similar) are placed in separate, development packages. Those packages are usually named libfoo-dev or libfooX-dev (presuming the library package is named libfooX, and X is a whole number).