From: Daniel Colascione Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 08:11:21 +0000 (-0800) Subject: Add NEWS entries for cygw32 X-Git-Tag: emacs-24.2.90~237^2~61^2~1 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=de6e3a605daa95ecbf427deb00a86c583262ce2c;p=emacs.git Add NEWS entries for cygw32 --- diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS index 1a7eb82967d..ef7ef0c3d38 100644 --- a/etc/NEWS +++ b/etc/NEWS @@ -72,6 +72,10 @@ If you don't pass --with-x-toolkit to configure or if you pass with Gtk+ version 3, and if that fails, try Gtk+ version 2. You can explicitly require a specific version by passing --with-x-toolkit=gtk2 or --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 to configure. +-- +** The native Windows user interface is available for Cygwin. Passing +--with-w32 will configure a Cygwin emacs to use the Windows user +interface instead of the default, X11. * Startup Changes in Emacs 24.3 @@ -877,6 +881,11 @@ is detected. Emacs now supports mouse highlight, help-echo (in the echo area), and mouse-autoselect-window. +** Two new functions are available in Cygwin builds of Emacs: +cygwin-convert-path-from-windows and cygwin-convert-path-to-windows. +These functions allows lisp code to access the Cygwin path mapping +machinery to convert between Cygwin and Windows-native paths. + ** On MS-Windows Vista and later Emacs now supports symbolic links. * Changes in Emacs 24.2