From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: emacs on windows Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2008 19:00:43 -0800 Message-ID: <001401c86610$f7986a10$2c49908d@us.oracle.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1202007760 13685 80.91.229.12 (3 Feb 2008 03:02:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2008 03:02:40 +0000 (UTC) To: "'rustom'" , Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 03 04:03:00 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JLV8F-0003PV-9i for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Feb 2008 04:02:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JLV7n-0005Qi-JO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Feb 2008 22:02:31 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JLV7T-0005NL-81 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Feb 2008 22:02:11 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JLV7R-0005J4-Cy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Feb 2008 22:02:10 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JLV7R-0005Iq-AP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Feb 2008 22:02:09 -0500 Original-Received: from agminet01.oracle.com ([141.146.126.228]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JLV7Q-00015t-UC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Feb 2008 22:02:09 -0500 Original-Received: from agmgw2.us.oracle.com (agmgw2.us.oracle.com [152.68.180.213]) by agminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id m13325jS013716; Sat, 2 Feb 2008 21:02:05 -0600 Original-Received: from acsmt350.oracle.com (acsmt350.oracle.com [141.146.40.150]) by agmgw2.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.0/Switch-3.2.0) with ESMTP id m130qhAW010531; Sat, 2 Feb 2008 20:02:04 -0700 Original-Received: from inet-141-146-46-1.oracle.com by acsmt351.oracle.com with ESMTP id 3553682711202007635; Sat, 02 Feb 2008 19:00:35 -0800 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/141.144.73.44) by bhmail.oracle.com (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Sat, 02 Feb 2008 19:00:35 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-reply-to: Thread-Index: AchmDkCir8yyW7atRHSlraR3vuVhmQAAHMQA X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:51184 Archived-At: > 1. Is there some help/wiki etc for folks like me -- migrating from > linux to windows? > 2. Do people using emacs on windows prefer cygwin-emacs to native > windows emacs? Others will give you additional (and perhaps contradictory ;-)) help, but here are my 2 cents: 1. Emacs Wiki is your friend: http://www.emacswiki.org. You will find lots of help there for using Emacs with Windows. This category page is a good starting place: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/CategoryWThirtyTwo. 2. There is a mailing list just for Emacs on Windows: help-emacs-windows@gnu.org. Also very helpful. 3. I use Cygwin with a native Windows build of Emacs. I don't use a Cygwin build of Windows. Either way, Cygwin is great. No problems with paths, and so on. 4. See Lennart Borgman's EmacsW32 installer for Emacs on Windows. It includes several special features (customizations). I prefer to use a vanilla Emacs Windows binary, but I think most people use EmacsW32: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/EmacsW32. HTH.