From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs for Windows Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 09:24:49 +0300 Message-ID: <83d2a0bfwu.fsf@gnu.org> References: <874mvcc1jh.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1412922304 8315 80.91.229.3 (10 Oct 2014 06:25:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 06:25:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: haroogan@gmail.com, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: E Sabof Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 10 08:24:57 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XcTdJ-0003af-2H for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 08:24:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46417 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XcTdI-0004t3-KO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 02:24:56 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56916) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XcTd1-0004sy-4u for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 02:24:45 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XcTcv-0002XI-8F for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 02:24:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:51370) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XcTcu-0002X5-W0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 02:24:33 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0ND700I00TQCOO00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 09:24:31 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0ND700IH0TSUA280@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 09:24:31 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <874mvcc1jh.fsf@gmail.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:100368 Archived-At: > From: E Sabof > Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 23:37:38 +0100 > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > > Last time I've tried using Emacs on Windows When was that? > finding adequate replacements for Unix utilities and libraries was a > problem. Which utilities did you not find easily, and where did you look? I can show 3 URLs where you will find MinGW binaries of everything (well, everything I have on my systems ;-). > There should be demand for a well-researched, batteries-included distribution. I don't think everything should be in the same zip, though. Doing so causes trouble in the long run, because different packages have different schedules, and you want to upgrade to the newer versions from time to time.