From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Best way to run on Windows XP Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 21:35:23 +0300 Message-ID: References: <1122221022.525785.237790@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <200507251405.j6PE5hf2022073@beta.mvs.co.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1122318222 28262 80.91.229.2 (25 Jul 2005 19:03:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 19:03:42 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 25 21:03:41 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dx8EI-0000NM-Es for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 21:03:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dx8Gb-0003nm-9p for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 15:05:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dx8CI-0000qX-V0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 15:01:08 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dx8CH-0000pr-87 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 15:01:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dx8BF-0000FK-Db for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 15:00:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.66] (helo=romy.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Dx7yG-0000Bx-OE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 14:46:36 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-57-226.inter.net.il [80.230.57.226]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.5.8-GR) with ESMTP id BYG30931 (AUTH halo1); Mon, 25 Jul 2005 21:35:22 +0300 (IDT) Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org In-reply-to: <200507251405.j6PE5hf2022073@beta.mvs.co.il> (ehud@unix.mvs.co.il) 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:28176 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:28176 > Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 17:05:43 +0300 > From: "Ehud Karni" > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > > Cygwin Emacs is VERY well maintained by Joe Buehler. Still, his last ChangeLog entry in the Emacs CVS dates back to April 2004. If the Cygwin port is still in good shape, it's probably by sheer luck (or by work of others). > I was working with NTEmacs and switched to the Cygwin Emacs because > of two reasons: > 1. You have the full UNIX toolset with real POSIX support > (e.g. same paths, env vars with lower case letters). You can have the same with GnuWin32. > 2. Some things that were included in UNIX Emacs (jpeg IIRC) were not > supported by the NTEmacs but worked with Cygwin Emacs on X. This is supported in the CVS NTEmacs code for a very long time (before the Cygwin support became part of the CVS). So I think now Cygwin and NTEmacs basically work equally well, and the choice depends on whether one wants a native Windows Emacs or a Posix-compliant Emacs.