From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Rusi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: problem with grep Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 04:53:30 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5d97eb77-e7f0-4b30-ad53-7099ede48a3d@googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1524225208 3734 195.159.176.226 (20 Apr 2018 11:53:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 11:53:28 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 11:53:31 +0000 User-Agent: G2/1.0 To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 20 13:53:24 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1f9UbU-0000uW-1l for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Apr 2018 13:53:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51174 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f9Uda-0004eP-Ph for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Apr 2018 07:55:34 -0400 X-Received: by 2002:ac8:28b:: with SMTP id p11-v6mr7497906qtg.52.1524225211470; Fri, 20 Apr 2018 04:53:31 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.31.52.139 with SMTP id b133mr1146430vka.10.1524225211074; Fri, 20 Apr 2018 04:53:31 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!f34-v6no9485285qtb.0!news-out.google.com!p5-v6ni24002qtp.1!nntp.google.com!f34-v6no9485279qtb.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=45.126.105.75; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 45.126.105.75 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:222451 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:116569 Archived-At: 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?