From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Mathias Dahl <mathias.dahl@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Could we include diff and grep (etc.) executables on Windows?
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2019 11:53:42 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvimni78fy.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABrcCQ4i+FWH-WNLLNFcK=jiqgnfsFifE7ebC5wwGhvb9PgY7A@mail.gmail.com> (Mathias Dahl's message of "Sun, 17 Nov 2019 12:50:19 +0100")
> Of course, if you commit to use Emacs you can make sure to install these
> tools in one of several ways it can be done today (Cygwin. MSYS, natively
> compiled, etc.) but users could be up and running much faster if they did
> not have to do this. If you are trying out Emacs and compare it with other
> editors today, where some of this are also built in but work without these
> external tools, you might give up.
Maybe streamlining the MSYS way to install Emacs is the easiest/best way
to solve this problem?
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-17 16:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-17 11:50 Could we include diff and grep (etc.) executables on Windows? Mathias Dahl
2019-11-17 16:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-17 16:53 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2019-11-17 17:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-17 17:49 ` Óscar Fuentes
2019-11-17 19:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-11-18 15:53 ` Phillip Lord
2019-11-18 18:05 ` Stephen Leake
2019-11-19 14:56 ` Phillip Lord
2019-11-19 15:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-19 20:32 ` Óscar Fuentes
2019-11-20 16:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-18 15:49 ` Phillip Lord
2019-11-18 16:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-18 15:48 ` Phillip Lord
2019-11-18 16:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
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