Re: Neon Absentius - what for LaTex

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) writes:

> In article <85vezhh2hl.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>, David Kastrup  <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
>>Neon Absentius <absent@sdf.lonestar.org> writes:
>>
>>> On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 05:12:40PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
>>>> Friedrich Laher <fritz.laher@schmieder-laher.de> writes:
>>>> 
>>>> > What is the "best" way to use emacs as a (La)TeX editor in windows
>>>> > operating systems?  Besides auc-tex and preview-latex that are
>>>> > indispensable, I would also like whizzytex to be available.
>>>> > Preferably I would like a binary of emacs that is easy to install
>>>> > even for people that have not much experience with windows (like
>>>> > me).
>>>> 
>>>> You could give the developer Emacs with preinstalled AUCTeX at
>>>> <URL:ftp://alpha.gnu.org/pub/gnu/auctex> a try.
>>>> 
>>>
>>> Thanks, I'll have a look.
>>>
>>> It seems though that whizzytex works only for unix-like operating
>>> systems so if I want to use it I would probably have to use cygwin.
>>
>>No idea about that.  MSYS tends to provide a reasonably unix-like
>>environment for most purposes, and is less idiosyncratic than Cygwin.
>
> Please, what is MSVS, and in what way might it be "better" 
> than cygwin (for giving windows people access to things
> like egrep, ...)?

You don't need special DLLs, and it does far less meddling with path
names and system call imitations and so on.  Which makes stuff behave
somewhat more naturally and faster _if_ you get them to compile
(applications that use lot of Unix-specific features tend to be easier
to port to Cygwin, as that pretty much emulates most of the Unix
APIs).

The web page of MSYS <URL:http://www.mingw.org/msys.shtml> should
provide further details.

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