From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Robert Thorpe Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs-"distribution" for windows? Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2018 01:43:18 +0100 Message-ID: <874lgokuvt.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> References: <87va9451k9.fsf@radagast.pgxml.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1532482674 9293 195.159.176.226 (25 Jul 2018 01:37:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2018 01:37:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: emacs-list-18@pgxml.net Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 25 03:37:50 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 1fi8kN-0002Gl-86 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Jul 2018 03:37:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43265 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fi8mS-0007EW-3Q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Jul 2018 21:39:56 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36365) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fi8ly-0007EO-3m for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Jul 2018 21:39:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fi8lu-0003sv-Pp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Jul 2018 21:39:26 -0400 Original-Received: from outbound-smtp25.blacknight.com ([81.17.249.193]:54207) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fi7ua-00063H-1A for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Jul 2018 20:44:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.blacknight.com (pemlinmail03.blacknight.ie [81.17.254.16]) by outbound-smtp25.blacknight.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9A4AAB87D6 for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2018 01:43:19 +0100 (IST) Original-Received: (qmail 9954 invoked from network); 25 Jul 2018 00:43:19 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO RTLaptop) (rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com@[51.37.82.173]) by 81.17.254.9 with ESMTPSA (AES128-SHA encrypted, authenticated); 25 Jul 2018 00:43:19 -0000 In-Reply-To: <87va9451k9.fsf@radagast.pgxml.net> (emacs-list-18@pgxml.net) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: No matching host in p0f cache. That's all we know. X-Received-From: 81.17.249.193 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:117580 Archived-At: emacs-list-18@pgxml.net writes: > Hi, > > i need a bit input from emacs users on the windows platform. > > What "distribution" do you use? Is the windows emacs from gnu suitable > for day to day work, or are there more windows-optimized emacs-dists > out there? > > Just tell me a bit about your setup, and what the main tasks you with > emacs are. I don't use any distribution. I use the standard files from gnu.org. I do install other libraries and ports of GNU utility programs like aspell, man, grep, find, gzip and tar. I also install Info-zip, bzip2, xz and lzip. I get the extra libraries (for images, etc) from the ezwinports page. I get many of the utility programs from MinGW. I use ezwinports for the utility programs if MinGW is out-of-date, which it often is. I usually install compilers like Gcc while I'm at it. I'm thinking about changing this procedure, because it can be time consuming. There's now MinGW-w64 which is being maintained (unlike the original MinGW). I might try using that. I keep a list of my procedure for installing Emacs on a Windows PC. BR, Robert Thorpe