From: Rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: problem with grep
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 04:53:30 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5d97eb77-e7f0-4b30-ad53-7099ede48a3d@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.12761.1524206448.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
On Friday, April 20, 2018 at 12:10:51 PM UTC+5:30, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Dan Espen
> > Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2018 16:43:40 -0400
> >
> > When I had to use Windows, I found the path of least resistance was to
> > install the Cygwin package. That includes grep and lots of other
> > very useful Unix-y stuff, including diff which also works well with Emacs.
>
> Since nowadays native Windows ports of all the important GNU utilities
> are available, I don't think suggesting Cygwin is a good idea, because
> using Cygwin programs with native Windows build of Emacs has subtle
> problems which will require further non-default setups and tinkering.
>
> People who want Cygwin (and generally like to feel almost like on a
> Posix system) should install a Cygwin build of Emacs, not a native
> build.
I wonder whether one should say
gnuwin32 (or unixutils?) < msys (ming?) < cygwin
is an increasing order of nixiness but also increasing order of heavyweightness?
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[not found] <mailman.12709.1524098682.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-04-19 16:19 ` problem with grep Ben Bacarisse
2018-04-19 17:49 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-04-19 20:43 ` Dan Espen
2018-04-20 6:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.12761.1524206448.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-04-20 11:53 ` Rusi [this message]
2018-04-20 13:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.12772.1524229233.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-04-20 19:11 ` James K. Lowden
2018-04-20 17:51 ` Tomas Nordin
2018-04-19 0:16 Stanke, Fred
2018-04-19 6:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
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