From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: E Sabof Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs for Windows Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 21:38:57 +0100 Message-ID: <871tqfbqxq.fsf@gmail.com> References: <874mvcc1jh.fsf@gmail.com> <83d2a0bfwu.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1412973560 16826 80.91.229.3 (10 Oct 2014 20:39:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 20:39:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: haroogan@gmail.com, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 10 22:39:12 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xcgy0-00027i-4T for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 22:39:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50975 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xcgxz-0002Ii-QO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 16:39:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35659) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xcgxj-0002IR-Cx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 16:39:00 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xcgxd-0005Z9-U2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 16:38:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-wg0-x231.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c00::231]:51165) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xcgxd-0005Yw-N1; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 16:38:49 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-wg0-f49.google.com with SMTP id x12so4911901wgg.32 for ; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 13:38:48 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=references:user-agent:from:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:date :message-id:mime-version:content-type; bh=xamgeUoETyx4A1wyOqb4b/HOH/AN+8NFqrgd4+kehms=; b=SWJ9JYfD4PSSG7n2BI848xETMjRIX2t3VDWJ1AxoirHKf6UE1c3D8ewmmniNiO6lBK X7tk1P2UZZG+D+xdNFnLom3jp+tvJi2qQtnQUFM/jvbAJNlGAV84quI10f5v3LMkraZj qBo0HAWKmYVNAq1ZWtaGMOHQHtPPhPULRZfryHfvdxD+pfOhHmjJTtMHTZAq7e7ZZlW4 UBysqf2LH2OMZUg0vhTRjtdwy6z7tQRyUG4u4VGoXSFuN80TsiYxpG9KsKseLakv0q2L bK47BCF7oo6pabLC/cW7A72LGsfEBlo2ZWBTqbB3KBvwhnsEXS25gA40RRILtVnhi7b5 1QJA== X-Received: by 10.180.206.230 with SMTP id lr6mr7083127wic.82.1412973528652; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 13:38:48 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from ubuntu (249.109.189.80.dyn.plus.net. [80.189.109.249]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id gw6sm3757695wib.8.2014.10.10.13.38.45 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Fri, 10 Oct 2014 13:38:48 -0700 (PDT) User-agent: mu4e 0.9.9.6pre2; emacs 24.3.90.1 In-reply-to: <83d2a0bfwu.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:400c:c00::231 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:100399 Archived-At: I recall trying to get GIT (which comes with it's own mini posix environment), ack-grep (not part of cygwin, and requiring a windows version of perl), SSH (I think from cygwin) to get along, while trying to keep thing like find-dired and find-grep working. Admittedly it's more of a general unix-on-windows problem. Evgeni Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: E Sabof >> Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 23:37:38 +0100 >> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org >> >> Last time I've tried using Emacs on Windows > > When was that? > >> finding adequate replacements for Unix utilities and libraries was a >> problem. > > Which utilities did you not find easily, and where did you look? I > can show 3 URLs where you will find MinGW binaries of everything > (well, everything I have on my systems ;-). > >> There should be demand for a well-researched, batteries-included distribution. > > I don't think everything should be in the same zip, though. Doing so > causes trouble in the long run, because different packages have > different schedules, and you want to upgrade to the newer versions > from time to time.