From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Can't type in Command Prompt Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2015 16:51:23 +0100 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <874mfbls04.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> References: <87d1tzluzz.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1450713336 20420 80.91.229.3 (21 Dec 2015 15:55:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2015 15:55:36 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 21 16:55:28 2015 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 1aB2o4-00017V-Aj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Dec 2015 16:55:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45789 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aB2o3-00088M-JT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Dec 2015 10:55:27 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 36 Original-X-Trace: individual.net vCyl2f7dZx/4qqaR6syFmwMBKoTLawzByCpW0tpwMV/zfQFbt1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:MDUyZTUzZmZiYTdiNDgyMDIxMWI3ZjVlZWJlMzc0ZTM2NjY3YjI0Zg== sha1:tWzUYW2KA1jbIdR6C0l7IJNIv+k= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:216160 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:108450 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" >> Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2015 15:46:40 +0100 >> >> When I have to use a MS-Windows box, I install cygwin >> (http://cygwin.com) and run emacs in cygwin, so that I have a unix-like >> environment and command interpreter (ie. bash). > > That's an advice I don't recommend giving to anyone who could be faint > at heart. Cygwin programs and a native Windows build of Emacs are > subtly incompatible, and will not work well without some tinkering. Agreed, it's not for random MS-Windows users. It's an option for unix or Linux users who don't know much about MS-Windows and who'd want to have a familiar environment on that system. Granted, there are quite some subtle and not-so-subtle differences, notably with respect to paths, between the same program, like GNU emacs, running directly on MS-Windows, or running on cygwin. However, I imagine that a lot of emacs users actually rely on the underlying unix system more than they would like to confess. For a starter, we all use shell or term… I have a sizeable collection of emacs lisp commands and utilities, but I still write unix my scripts (in clisp); how many emacs users write ALL their scripts in emacs lisp (and thus, would be entirely at ease when changing from underlying system, and perhaps even running emacs bare on a kernel)? But yes, those are only consideration for a specific class of emacs users. -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ “The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.” -- Carl Bass CEO Autodesk