From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Brett Kelly Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: "Best" way to run on Windows XP Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 18:55:21 -0700 Message-ID: <20050818015521.GE11875@inkedmn.com> References: <1122221022.525785.237790@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <4302681C.3080003@student.lu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1124331059 16075 80.91.229.2 (18 Aug 2005 02:10:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 02:10:59 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 18 04:10:52 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E5ZqZ-0001ZC-RS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 04:09:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E5Zu3-0008Bg-RS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 22:13:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E5Zsi-0007uP-Fh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 22:11:49 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E5Zsa-0007rq-6s for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 22:11:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E5ZsZ-0007k8-Aa for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 22:11:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [68.168.78.199] (helo=mta9.adelphia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1E5Zsn-0005pf-By for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 22:11:53 -0400 Original-Received: from toulouse.inkedmn.com ([69.172.208.59]) by mta9.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.6.01.04.01 201-2131-118-101-20041129) with ESMTP id <20050818015529.LIXT29002.mta9.adelphia.net@toulouse.inkedmn.com> for ; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 21:55:29 -0400 Original-Received: from christian.inkedmn.com (christian.inkedmn.com [192.168.1.100]) by toulouse.inkedmn.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C9F06E4BA for ; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 18:29:37 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by christian.inkedmn.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C5EF752325; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 18:55:21 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4302681C.3080003@student.lu.se> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i 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:28808 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:28808 The Labrat toolkit has many, many good unix utils ported to win32: http://labrattech.com/project/labrattoolkit/ (Sorry if this has already been mentioned, I caught this thread half-way through) Brett Sometime around Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 12:26:36AM +0200, Lennart Borgman said: > treebeard wrote: > > >Chris Lott wrote: > > > >>Is the "best" way to run emacs on Windows XP to use the Native XP build > >>or the Cygwin? By "best" I mean: stable, able to run elisp code from > >>emacs.sources, and able to effectively use external tools like grep, > >>diff, etc... ? > >> > >>c > >> > >I find using the Windows-native Emacs or XEmacs in conjunction with > >the cygwin tools to be the most versatile. Either way, you have access > >to all of the binaries on the path (incl the cygwin binaries). One > >thing I really like about the native vs. cygwin versions is that > >drag-and-drop of directories or files from Windows Explorer is supported. > > I have found the Gnuwin32 version of gnu tools to be very good together > with Emacs (but I am not the most experienced). For example they can > handle both unix and Windows style line endings without difficulties. In > contrast this is currently not the case with MSYS which makes it quite a > bit harder to use MSYS. > > However I miss "sh" which unfortunateluy not is not part of the Gnuwin32 > tools. (It would be nice if someone ported it in a useful way like the > other Gnuwin32 tools.) > > > _______________________________________________ > Help-gnu-emacs mailing list > Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs > -- Brett Kelly inkedmn@inkedmn.com http://inkedmn.com:8000 GPG Public Key: http://inkedmn.com:8000/stuff/inkedmn.asc