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"Chris  Lott" <Chris.Lott@gmail.com> 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... ?

I've spent a lot of time in both environments, and IMO, if you want
something that "just works" (i.e. feels like Emacs on *nix), go for the
Cygwin port.  It's well maintained, and with Cygwin/X in multiwindow
mode, you'll feel like home.
-- 
Jason Dufair - jase@dufair.org
http://www.dufair.org/
"I would never do crack...
I would never do a drug named after a part of my own ass, okay?" 
-- Denis Leary.