From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Release plans Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:14:04 +0000 Message-ID: <20080812171404.GB7999@muc.de> References: <10697146.3630221218551689983.JavaMail.www@wwinf4615> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1218561149 21718 80.91.229.12 (12 Aug 2008 17:12:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:12:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" , "Emacs Dev \[emacs-devel\]" To: A Soare Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 12 19:13:20 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KSxQr-0007l6-8K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:13:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36605 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KSxPv-0006iq-5R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:12:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KSxPp-0006fn-8A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:12:13 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KSxPn-0006cG-Jq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:12:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=57212 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KSxPn-0006bu-5v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:12:11 -0400 Original-Received: from colin.muc.de ([193.149.48.1]:1771 helo=mail.muc.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KSxPl-0003Fk-Dq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:12:09 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 63039 invoked by uid 3782); 12 Aug 2008 17:12:05 -0000 Original-Received: from acm.muc.de (pD9E52578.dip.t-dialin.net [217.229.37.120]) by colin2.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:12:02 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 9814 invoked by uid 1000); 12 Aug 2008 17:14:04 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <10697146.3630221218551689983.JavaMail.www@wwinf4615> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.5 (Fettercairn) X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 4.6-4.9 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:102350 Archived-At: Hi! On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 04:34:49PM +0200, A Soare wrote: > I say that in general almost nobody use emacs in windows. There are > exceptions, quite so. But I have never seen exceptions. In the field I work in (embedded systems), our targets are very often Unix-like OSs (e.g. QNX), our host systems are (nearly) always Windows, and development itself is done either on Windows or on a Unix server. In this type of environment, cygwin is always installed, and Emacs on Windows is popular, as is perl, bash, vi, .....; It has been known for programmers enamoured of the Windows OS to complain quite loudly at the lack of a "decent editor" in Unix. ;-) -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).