From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: "Best" way to run on Windows XP Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 00:26:36 +0200 Message-ID: <4302681C.3080003@student.lu.se> References: <1122221022.525785.237790@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1124231715 28133 80.91.229.2 (16 Aug 2005 22:35:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 22:35:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 17 00:35:15 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E5A0S-0001zm-9P for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 00:34:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E5A3s-0003jo-Pj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 18:37:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E5A05-0002Et-ON for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 18:33:42 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E59zu-00029K-GK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 18:33:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E59zs-00027F-Uy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 18:33:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [81.228.11.159] (helo=pne-smtpout2-sn1.fre.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1E5A8v-0008Pq-1d for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 18:42:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.123.121] (83.249.200.229) by pne-smtpout2-sn1.fre.skanova.net (7.2.060.1) id 42B9371700899E03; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 00:26:41 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: tburbage3@excite.com In-Reply-To: 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:28765 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:28765 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.)