From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: treebeard Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: "Best" way to run on Windows XP Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 22:07:40 GMT Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated (adobe.com) Message-ID: References: <1122221022.525785.237790@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> Reply-To: tburbage3@excite.com NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1124230407 24976 80.91.229.2 (16 Aug 2005 22:13:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 22:13:27 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 17 00:13:25 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E59et-0006HS-TI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 00:11:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E59iK-0006pX-Un for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 18:15:21 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news2.google.com!newsread.com!newsstand.newsread.com!POSTED.newshog.newsread.com!not-for-mail User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.5 (Windows/20050711) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs In-Reply-To: <1122221022.525785.237790@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> Original-Lines: 13 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.150.10.200 Original-X-Complaints-To: Abuse Role , We Care Original-X-Trace: newshog.newsread.com 1124230060 192.150.10.200 (Tue, 16 Aug 2005 18:07:40 EDT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 18:07:40 EDT Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:133237 comp.emacs:89907 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:28764 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:28764 Chris Lott wrote: > Is the "best" way to run emacs on Windows XP to use the Native XP build > or the Cygwin? By "best" I mean: stable, able to run elisp code from > emacs.sources, and able to effectively use external tools like grep, > diff, etc... ? > > c > I find using the Windows-native Emacs or XEmacs in conjunction with the cygwin tools to be the most versatile. Either way, you have access to all of the binaries on the path (incl the cygwin binaries). One thing I really like about the native vs. cygwin versions is that drag-and-drop of directories or files from Windows Explorer is supported.