Emacs on Cygwin

More info about using a cygwin version of emacs can be found at this page. It appears that Cygwin now has an GnuEmacs package!

http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?CygwinizedEmacsHOWTO

Recently I have had success with the GnuEmacs port running with Cygwin XFree. It works quite well. More importantly, all the little convenience features of MH-E work perfectly there. There is even a screen shot at the MH-E website.

Here are the steps that I use to run Emacs under Cygwin:

• Install Cygwin. At the same time install GNU Emacs and the compface packages. The compface package shows X-Face pictures in mail and is a pleasant bit of eye candy.
• Add the following line to .bashrc

  export DISPLAY=:0.0

• Now from a cygwin shell run the following command

  XWin -multiwindow

• Now you can start emacs from a cygwin shell and it will start of in its own window. Surprisingly it works quite well.