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From: "H. Dieter Wilhelm" <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de>
To: Joost <joostkremers@fastmail.fm>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to *properly* set up Emacs on Windows?
Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2022 12:22:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86a6f0s2sm.fsf@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <329e100c-bdc0-4dd3-9f8b-64af1b4cc90e@www.fastmail.com> (Joost's message of "Wed, 09 Feb 2022 09:48:09 +0100")

Joost <joostkremers@fastmail.fm> writes:

> Is there an Emacs 28 pretest available that will work with this? (The
> Windows binaries that were anounced on emacs-devel the other day
> appear to be MSYS2 binaries? And `pacman -Ss emacs` doesn't return any
> Emacs 28 packages.)

Please check

  http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/windows/emacs-28/

These Windows binaries were build with MSYS2 but don't need MSYS to run.
Please read nt/README{.W64} and nt/INSTALL{.W64} for further
information.

> I've been using Git Bash (alongside eshell) as my shell of
> choice. Would the MinGW-x64 shell provided by MSYS2 be a better
> choice? Or doesn't it really matter?

As far as I understand, Git Bash is based on MSYS2.  (I'm now using
exclusively the MSYS2 shell, instead of the Git Bash shell..:-))

   Dieter
-- 
Best wishes
H. Dieter Wilhelm
Zwingenberg, Germany



  reply	other threads:[~2022-02-09 11:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-02-08 17:06 How to *properly* set up Emacs on Windows? Joost
2022-02-08 18:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-09  8:14   ` Joost
2022-02-09 14:04     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-10 21:05       ` Joost Kremers
2022-02-08 20:02 ` Óscar Fuentes
2022-02-09  8:48   ` Joost
2022-02-09 11:22     ` H. Dieter Wilhelm [this message]
2022-02-09 13:19     ` Óscar Fuentes
2022-02-10 21:58       ` Joost Kremers
2022-02-10 22:37         ` Óscar Fuentes
2022-02-11  9:30           ` Joost
2022-02-11  7:00         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-09 12:28 ` Arash Esbati

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