From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: "Best" way to run on Windows XP Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 18:47:43 +0200 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <85ackc40cw.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <1122221022.525785.237790@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1122223997 4058 80.91.229.2 (24 Jul 2005 16:53:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 16:53:17 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 24 18:53:16 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dwjil-0001yV-Tx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 18:53:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dwjl0-0004Dv-UH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 12:55:18 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!feed.news.tiscali.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.arcor.de!news.arcor.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:h4Id8m+yBxD8mr0PQ+zuO1yfTAw= Original-Lines: 13 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 24 Jul 2005 18:47:45 MEST Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: b8a41296.newsread4.arcor-online.net Original-X-Trace: DXC=>PA9T:6]<4Lndh]; 1CKbgL:ejgIfPPldDjW\KbG]kaMHXY; eg@jLYeL4<50A:[; A=I1_LiI6ENVaM3>5MOK` 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:28129 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:28129 "Chris Lott" writes: > 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... ? I think native build plus MSYS is a pretty good combination, but I have not actively tried it myself, not being a Windows user. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum