From: Klaus Berndl <klaus.berndl@sdm.de>
Subject: Re: Best way to run on Windows XP
Date: 25 Jul 2005 19:54:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uvf2yahzq.fsf@sdm.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1610.1122300590.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Ehud Karni wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 17:51:40 +0100, Jason Rumney wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
> Cygwin Emacs is VERY well maintained by Joe Buehler. He did a superb
> job, including the unexec part. His changes are included in the main
> trunk, so compiling Emacs from CVS in Cygwin works OOTB.
>
> 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).
> 2. Some things that were included in UNIX Emacs (jpeg IIRC) were not
> supported by the NTEmacs but worked with Cygwin Emacs on X.
>
> If you use the Cygwin toolset, I highly recommend using Cygwin Emacs.
Sounds interesting. Two question from a guy who just thinks about trying out
the cygwin-port:
1. Did you encounter performance-issues with the cygwin port of Emacs? I ask,
because the cygwin-port of XEmacs is often horrible slow concerning
file-operations compared with the native Windows-port.
2. Is a X-Server needed for running the cygwin-port of Emacs. I'm just running
the rxvt-terminal of cygwin and the native Windows-port of Emacs and i'm
quite happy with it. Do i need the X-server for the cygwin-port?
Thanks a lot in advance,
Klaus
>
> Ehud.
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Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-24 16:03 "Best" way to run on Windows XP Chris Lott
2005-07-24 16:20 ` Chris L
2005-07-24 18:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-07-24 19:46 ` Peter Dyballa
2005-07-25 3:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1549.1122262220.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-07-25 7:25 ` David Kastrup
2005-07-25 19:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2005-07-25 19:31 ` David Kastrup
2005-07-26 5:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1714.1122355790.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-07-26 8:49 ` David Kastrup
2005-07-26 18:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1511.1122231867.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-07-25 17:49 ` Klaus Berndl
2005-07-24 16:47 ` David Kastrup
2005-07-24 19:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-07-24 21:14 ` Lennart Borgman
[not found] ` <mailman.1513.1122231961.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-07-25 17:50 ` Klaus Berndl
2005-07-24 16:51 ` Jason Rumney
2005-07-25 14:05 ` Best " Ehud Karni
2005-07-25 18:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1610.1122300590.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-07-25 17:54 ` Klaus Berndl [this message]
2005-07-25 18:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-07-25 19:04 ` J. David Boyd
2005-07-26 4:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1712.1122353968.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-07-28 13:57 ` Klaus Berndl
2005-07-24 18:56 ` "Best" " Eli Zaretskii
2005-07-24 19:08 ` Drew Adams
2005-07-25 16:50 ` Jason Dufair
2005-07-25 22:20 ` Peter Lee
2005-08-16 22:07 ` treebeard
2005-08-16 22:26 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-08-18 1:55 ` Brett Kelly
2005-10-15 8:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.4126.1124331117.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-08-25 1:02 ` David Combs
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