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: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 10:09:32 +0100 Message-ID: <87y4slac37.fsf@gmail.com> References: <874mvcc1jh.fsf@gmail.com> <83d2a0bfwu.fsf@gnu.org> <871tqfbqxq.fsf@gmail.com> <834mvb9kdz.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1413104988 20576 80.91.229.3 (12 Oct 2014 09:09:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 09:09:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 12 11:09:41 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 1XdF9p-0002KI-IK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Oct 2014 11:09:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56598 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XdF9p-0007kj-3y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Oct 2014 05:09:41 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59837) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XdF9Z-0007gf-OE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Oct 2014 05:09:31 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XdF9U-0000Au-9n for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Oct 2014 05:09:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-wg0-x234.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c00::234]:38539) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XdF9U-0000Al-2e; Sun, 12 Oct 2014 05:09:20 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-wg0-f52.google.com with SMTP id a1so6634707wgh.11 for ; Sun, 12 Oct 2014 02:09:19 -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=KbzM0+tXRdrbRzSKGk8BBKNWKrp6QBaFy4jqC9j2EII=; b=uvi/9i/5l0+ydUuUxdSKah1/6GZY/XqyGWeL0IskK7KJMSldyQLo34jdFPJ2K+cuIO oVGkhBG3ehsrS4hOP3R1bBxNb6oS5q7X+3FispT/tV+VFUQlqhGTAsyl7UrBnje5jWhf DJPOBz6jXTf8vXqFZBsNO5mhhpvKZ6eFEfJt5IeI7ji8sMHGWe5HksfvJLKXByE1onag PDyOmY8defxmXmY5hq3jfWxlUACr4AvJatPVFB3qZ+PKXOWvTbFkXPGluvtYyV4nrpd/ FdDmjWhSsH2kFqVIqoOLlVnMdNp4JB3taoFWQx99qSxksdvfRgRun11g1tAie6g5LAMr g+OA== X-Received: by 10.194.184.40 with SMTP id er8mr853340wjc.104.1413104959025; Sun, 12 Oct 2014 02:09:19 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from ubuntu ([195.166.146.148]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id b6sm8181797wiy.22.2014.10.12.02.09.17 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sun, 12 Oct 2014 02:09:18 -0700 (PDT) User-agent: mu4e 0.9.9.6pre2; emacs 24.3.90.1 In-reply-to: <834mvb9kdz.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::234 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:100445 Archived-At: Thanks, I'll keep these in mind Evgeni Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: E Sabof >> Cc: haroogan@gmail.com, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org >> Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 21:38:57 +0100 >> >> 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. > > None of that is a problem for me. Instead of SSH, I suggest plink > from PuTTY (which Tramp supports out of the box), and the "mini posix > environment" that comes with GIT, which are MSYS programs, is > available in native MinGW ports from GnuWin32. > > So, while the initial setup does takes some effort, it is not too hard > and doesn't require anything except unzipping a bunch of archives and > setting up PATH.