From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-9?Q?Ye=FEim_Erke=2DMagent?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Ediff error -- Permission denied (Win8) Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2013 13:11:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1375474522 8884 80.91.229.3 (2 Aug 2013 20:15:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2013 20:15:22 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 02 22:15:25 2013 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 1V5Lkv-0005Af-GH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Aug 2013 22:15:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38013 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V5Lkv-0006uv-0y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Aug 2013 16:15:21 -0400 X-Received: by 10.224.7.7 with SMTP id b7mr11458684qab.5.1375474265922; Fri, 02 Aug 2013 13:11:05 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.49.13.169 with SMTP id i9mr307374qec.18.1375474265906; Fri, 02 Aug 2013 13:11:05 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!f7no546598qan.0!news-out.google.com!a13ni157qay.0!nntp.google.com!fx3no579437qab.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=70.15.2.179; posting-account=xLs80goAAAAQIthBWufwTFLZQkT3EulG Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 70.15.2.179 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 20:11:05 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:200410 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:92677 Archived-At: On Friday, August 2, 2013 12:44:24 AM UTC-4, Rustom Mody wrote: > On Friday, August 2, 2013 5:09:16 AM UTC+5:30, Stefan Monnier wrote: >=20 > > > I wish I had Unix running on my machine! >=20 > >=20 >=20 > > Do you need help with that? >=20 >=20 >=20 > Since this seems to be such a FAQ, attempting to say something. Hopefull= y more windows-aware folks will amend. >=20 >=20 >=20 > Many people using windows find need for unix-ish facilities/features/feel= . >=20 >=20 >=20 > Setting up native windows emacs is a first (but not last!) step. >=20 > cygwin is considered a full-featured but somewhat heavyweight answer to t= his need >=20 > mingw is a somewhat lighter solution. >=20 >=20 >=20 > Some comparison here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/771756/what-is-th= e-difference-between-cygwin-and-mingw >=20 >=20 >=20 > You can also set up diff/grep etc alone. >=20 > [I believe Eli has posted the link a few days back...] >=20 >=20 >=20 > Other solutions: >=20 > Win+Linux side-by-side: Make your system multibootable with grub. >=20 > This is an old solution. In my most recent bundled-with-win-8 laptop, cop= ying files from ubuntu and windows is not working as it used to. Seems to = be a uefi/gpt problem. >=20 >=20 >=20 > Windows-inside-linux: wubi can be installed as a normal windows program i= nside windows and was quite popular but again seems to be suffering gpt/uef= i related problems. >=20 >=20 >=20 > Linux-in-VM-in-windows: I know some friends who swear by VMware. No exper= ience myself. >=20 >=20 >=20 > Wine: windows emulator inside linux. Will run many (not all!) windows pro= grams on a vanilla gnu/linux I installed cygwin after receiving a reply to my question. I added it to t= he Environment Variable, PATH (please see my previous comment) but cannot s= till make it work. I guess the major problem is I can hardly remember Unix= commands as well as Emacs as it has been over a decade I used them.