From: Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Ediff error -- Permission denied (Win8)
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2013 21:44:24 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bdfe6d33-1a46-4fc6-9439-d81a4255e79c@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.2342.1375400381.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
On Friday, August 2, 2013 5:09:16 AM UTC+5:30, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > I wish I had Unix running on my machine!
>
> Do you need help with that?
Since this seems to be such a FAQ, attempting to say something. Hopefully more windows-aware folks will amend.
Many people using windows find need for unix-ish facilities/features/feel.
Setting up native windows emacs is a first (but not last!) step.
cygwin is considered a full-featured but somewhat heavyweight answer to this need
mingw is a somewhat lighter solution.
Some comparison here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/771756/what-is-the-difference-between-cygwin-and-mingw
You can also set up diff/grep etc alone.
[I believe Eli has posted the link a few days back...]
Other solutions:
Win+Linux side-by-side: Make your system multibootable with grub.
This is an old solution. In my most recent bundled-with-win-8 laptop, copying files from ubuntu and windows is not working as it used to. Seems to be a uefi/gpt problem.
Windows-inside-linux: wubi can be installed as a normal windows program inside windows and was quite popular but again seems to be suffering gpt/uefi related problems.
Linux-in-VM-in-windows: I know some friends who swear by VMware. No experience myself.
Wine: windows emulator inside linux. Will run many (not all!) windows programs on a vanilla gnu/linux
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-02 4:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-01 20:30 Ediff error -- Permission denied (Win8) Yeşim Erke-Magent
2013-08-01 21:38 ` Óscar Fuentes
2013-08-01 23:39 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.2342.1375400381.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-08-02 4:44 ` Rustom Mody [this message]
2013-08-02 20:11 ` Yeşim Erke-Magent
2013-08-02 20:07 ` Yeşim Erke-Magent
2013-08-02 5:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.2337.1375393123.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-08-02 20:06 ` Yeşim Erke-Magent
2013-08-02 23:14 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.2361.1375422778.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-08-02 20:19 ` Yeşim Erke-Magent
2013-08-03 7:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-03-09 10:39 ` dbbd
2015-03-09 16:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-03-13 11:44 ` dbbd
2015-03-13 15:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
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