From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jasonr (Jason Rumney) @ f2s.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: "Best" way to run on Windows XP Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 17:51:40 +0100 Organization: freedom2surf Message-ID: References: <1122221022.525785.237790@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1122224299 4639 80.91.229.2 (24 Jul 2005 16:58:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 16:58:19 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 24 18:58:19 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dwjne-0002Mw-Mw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 18:58:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dwjpu-0005Bd-4X for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 13:00:22 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!solnet.ch!solnet.ch!news.clara.net!valentin.news.clara.net!peernews.inweb.co.uk!news.freedom2surf.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs Original-Lines: 25 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: i-83-67-23-108.freedom2surf.net Original-X-Trace: news.freedom2surf.net 1122223964 14798 83.67.23.108 (24 Jul 2005 16:52:44 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@freedom2surf.net Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 16:52:44 +0000 (UTC) X-Face: .PruP48JRO{Z6Rfz?YkZ>)zR+7!Up"`!1Cvq{fGd)@K; y]C:8r\CrJ^Mj\_U"9*WD2 I#zdK_#tw]y9*Y$?ge&b23Zt7zpknL{)F7Px4DVSY6b9dg[^VtkN-R_$YJ0cL''j[, }O#k{k| User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:BWaqP6ntFse0BZuIAvIf6ifSGhU= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:132611 comp.emacs:89743 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:28130 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:28130 "Chris Lott" writes: > 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... ? If you are only using Cygwin tools, then Cygwin might be better in some respects, but if that is the case, why use Windows at all? For any other case, I'd have to say the native build for the following reasons. Cygwin Emacs does not appear to be regularly maintained. Maybe the original port was good enough that it doesn't need anyone maintaining it, but I doubt it. A lot of effort has been put into making native Windows Emacs work with Cygwin tools. The cygwin developers don't seem to show any interest in making their tools work with native Windows tools. Even for such programs as make where running external tools is the program's primary purpose, their solution is to ask everyone to rewrite their makefiles with awkward macros around filename arguments that might be processed by non-Cygwin tools.