Usage notes for emacs on Cygwin
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1. The emacs, emacs-w32, emacs-X11, and emacs-lucid packages each
   provide an emacs binary.  These are emacs-nox.exe, emacs-w32.exe,
   emacs-X11.exe, and emacs-lucid.exe, respectively, in order of
   increasing priority.  The postinstall scripts create a symlink
   /usr/bin/emacs that resolves to the highest-priority binary that
   you have installed.  Thus the command 'emacs' will start
   emacs-lucid.exe if you've installed the emacs-lucid package;
   otherwise, it will start emacs-X11.exe if you've installed
   emacs-X11; otherwise, it will start emacs-w32.exe if you've
   installed emacs-w32; otherwise, it will start emacs-nox.exe if
   you've installed emacs.  Similar remarks apply to emacsclient.

   You only need to install one of these four packages, but you can
   install more if you want.  If you have installed more than one and
   don't like the default resolution of /usr/bin/emacs, you can run
   one of the /usr/bin/set-emacs-default-*.sh scripts to change it.
   For example,

     /usr/bin/set-emacs-default-w32.sh

   will make /usr/bin/emacs resolve to /usr/bin/emacs-w32.exe,
   regardless of which packages you've installed.

2. Install emacs-X11 if you want to use the X11 GUI with the GTK+
   toolkit.  (This is the default toolkit.)  You can then type
   'emacs&' in an xterm window, and emacs-X11.exe will start in a new
   window.  If you prefer the Lucid toolkit, install emacs-lucid
   instead.

3. Install emacs-w32 if you want to use the native Windows GUI instead
   of X11.

4. If you use the Emacs MH-E library for email, consider installing
   Cygwin's mailutils-mh package.  To use it, put the line

     (load "mailutils-mh")

   in your site-start.el or ~/.emacs file.

5. If you have sshd running and want to be able to run emacs-X11 from
   a remote machine, you need to enable X11 forwarding by adding the
   following line to /etc/sshd_config:

     X11Forwarding yes

   You might also need to have the cygserver service running.

6. The script /usr/bin/make-emacs-shortcut can be used to create a
   shortcut for starting emacs.  The shortcut assumes that you have
   installed the emacs-X11 and emacs-w32 packages.  It starts emacs
   under X if an X server is running, and it starts emacs-w32.exe
   otherwise.  The script creates an xml file in /usr/local/bin, so
   the user who runs the script needs to be able to write to that
   directory.

   Edit the shortcut or the script or the xml file if you want to
   modify the default behavior.

   You will need the cygutils package in order to run
   make-emacs-shortcut, and you will need the run2 package in order to
   use the shortcut it creates.

7. If you don't like the default fonts in the GUI versions of emacs,
   you can change them via the menu items

     Options -> Set Default Font
     Options -> Save Options

   This will set the default font in your ~/.emacs and will apply to
   all GUI versions of emacs.  If you want different default fonts for
   the w32 and X11 GUIs, use the lisp variable `window-system' to
   distinguish between them.

   For example, the following code in ~/.emacs makes DejaVu Sans
   Mono-10 the default font for emacs-w32:

     (if (eq window-system 'w32)
         (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist
                      '(font . "DejaVu Sans Mono-10")))

   And the following code in ~/.emacs makes DejaVu Sans Mono-10 the
   default for emacs-w32 and Droid Sans Mono-11 the default for
   emacs-X11 and emacs-lucid:

     (cond
      ((eq window-system 'w32)
       (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist
                    '(font . "DejaVu Sans Mono-10")))
      ((eq window-system 'x)
       (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist
                    '(font . "Droid Sans Mono-11"))))

8. If you want to run emacs under gdb, start by giving the following
   gdb command:

     (gdb) source /usr/share/emacs/26.1/etc/.gdbinit

   This defines some gdb commands that are helpful when debugging
   emacs.  See /usr/share/emacs/26.1/etc/DEBUG for details.