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: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 03:05:55 +0100 Message-ID: <87zjd39x8c.fsf@gmail.com> References: <874mvcc1jh.fsf@gmail.com> <83d2a0bfwu.fsf@gnu.org> <871tqfbqxq.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1412993183 4178 80.91.229.3 (11 Oct 2014 02:06:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 02:06:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" To: John Mastro Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 11 04:06:16 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 1Xcm4W-0002bG-73 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 04:06:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51943 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xcm4V-0008UQ-NC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 22:06:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55820) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xcm4A-0008UE-5z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 22:06:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xcm3z-0003gp-Ov for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 22:05:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-wg0-x22d.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c00::22d]:59142) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xcm3z-0003gZ-IZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 22:05:43 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-wg0-f45.google.com with SMTP id m15so5094898wgh.28 for ; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 19:05:42 -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=qStmlyB2/2nZdATHZCEG8NjHpjc2D8AiSZeSkFjZwRY=; b=bf2qrIo2g3LrlM9KE4kf3kCsUNNjKBvy57IhTiMMgaQweDySmNOmAl6TfURuEpszpY 0yHnrQnYCiNZPnJGPNoI+rr0D82YUpwlEMS2xh97ZwYHq5lGktisnsj+8eCM/dDd5pkT Aqo9IyMshPecCTtTd3LGi4rw6Lcludyi7O0t2Nu6GJfSA8/Afhd5NLvKE/LQ8YVsmBec x7ZAHCRzsnSzFoDSKCw2HRUsLM2D5qo/+gRy/p7nc8alKW5Eu6vW7X+YUJUG9BTiTxWp ZaAUlw4OxbCChKR4ls1ydsIKtPNTm1mlKlq18h/Gtnw4uL9YlYXHqI/gcJ5sU33wfYNU 2XZQ== X-Received: by 10.180.91.101 with SMTP id cd5mr8082650wib.41.1412993142232; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 19:05:42 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from ubuntu (249.109.189.80.dyn.plus.net. [80.189.109.249]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id ji10sm4323695wid.7.2014.10.10.19.05.40 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Fri, 10 Oct 2014 19:05:41 -0700 (PDT) User-agent: mu4e 0.9.9.6pre2; emacs 24.3.90.1 In-reply-to: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:400c:c00::22d 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:100407 Archived-At: Thanks, I'll give Cygwin another try when I happened to use Windows. Evgeni John Mastro writes: > E Sabof wrote: >> 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. > > In case it's off interest, here's how I deal with those things: > - Use Cygwin's git > - Use CPAN with Cygwin's Perl to install Ack > - Use Cygwin's SSH > > So far `find-dired', `find-grep', and so on have worked fine. Much > better than the results I've gotten from solutions other than Cygwin.