Re: FAQ entries about emacs

["Dr. Volker Zell" <dr dot volker dot zell at oracle dot com>]

>>>>> Corinna Vinschen writes:

    > Hi Volker,
    > can you do me a favor?  Can you have a look into the FAQ entries "Is
    > there a Cygwin port of GNU Emacs?" and the next one "What about NT
    > Emacs?" and suggest a rewrite? The information given in these two FAQ
    > entries is certainly outdated, but I'm not quite sure how to rephrase
    > them.  What especially bugs me is the reference to X11 which, as far as
    > I know, is not correct for XEmacs.  Maybe (but that's just a vague idea
    > from an Emacs non-user) it might be a good idea to pull the two FAQ
    > entries together into one "Is there a Cygwin port of Emacs?" and just
    > talk about XEmacs and GNU emacs, whatever the actual difference is.

--- /o/download/faq-using.xml.orig	2009-02-22 20:36:51.078125000 +0100
+++ /o/download/faq-using.xml	2009-02-22 21:34:36.359375000 +0100
@@ -806,12 +806,50 @@
 </answer></qandaentry>
 
 <qandaentry id="faq.using.xemacs">
-<question><para>What about XEmacs?</para></question>
+<question><para>Is there a Cygwin port of XEmacs?</para></question>
 <answer>
 
-<para>For a concise description of the current situation with XEmacs, see
-this message from the Cygwin mailing list:
-<ulink url="http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-11/msg00609.html";>http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-11/msg00609.html</ulink>.
+<para>Yes.  It can be used in three different modes:
+<para><itemizedlist>
+<listitem><para>X11 (<ulink url="http://cygwin.com/xfree/";>http://cygwin.com/xfree/</ulink>) GUI</para></listitem>
+</itemizedlist></para>
+<para>You have to <emphasis>set</emphasis> the DISPLAY environment variable
+before starting xemacs.
+<screen>
+	bash$ DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0 xemacs &
+</screen>
+</para>
+<listitem><para>Windows native GUI</para></listitem>
+</itemizedlist></para>
+<para>You have to <emphasis>unset</emphasis> the DISPLAY environment variable
+before starting xemacs.
+</para>
+<screen>
+	bash$ DISPLAY= xemacs &
+</screen>
+<listitem><para>Console mode</para></listitem>
+</itemizedlist></para>
+<para>Start xemacs with -nw in a terminal (native or X11) window
+</para>
+<screen>
+	bash$ xemacs -nw
+</screen>
+</para>
+<para>The current stable Cygwin version of XEmacs is 21.4.x. But there is also a
+Cygwin test release version (21.5.x) available for download via setup.exe.
+</para>
+<para>To use all the standard packages with XEmacs you should download the following
+two packages:
+<para><itemizedlist>
+<listitem><para>xemacs-sumo - XEmacs standard packages</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>xemacs-mule-sumo - XEmacs MULE (MUlti Lingual Emacs) packages</para></listitem>
+</itemizedlist></para>
+</para>
+<para>An alternative <emphasis>native</emphasis> distribution of XEmacs for
+Windows based systems can be downloaded from
+<ulink url="http://xemacs.org/Download/win32/index.html";>. It uses an
+<emphasis>InnoSetup Kit</emphasis> based installer.
+</para>
 </para>
 </answer></qandaentry>
 
    > Thanks in advance,
    > Corinna

Ciao
  Volker