From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to build the C language environment in Emacs? Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 02:41:35 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87lhlfnz8w.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <54a773933fe5_@_imoxion.com> <86k314me0k.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1420594852 2267 80.91.229.3 (7 Jan 2015 01:40:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 01:40:52 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 07 02:40:44 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 1Y8fbg-00005U-KZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Jan 2015 02:40:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38951 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y8fbf-0004ST-Rp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Jan 2015 20:40:19 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 32 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: feB02bRejf23rfBm51Mt7Q.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:yhnhsk8/dF7/bSa+LpxMA9jqVe4= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:209636 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:101914 Archived-At: Ken Goldman writes: >> well...IIRC, using Emacs in windows is terrible... > > I use emacs on Windows and it's nearly the same as > Unix. Some of the PrintScreen ScrollLock Pause key > chords don't work quite the same. Otherwise, emacs > is emacs. I also recall using Emacs in Windows unpleasant to say the least. Emacs is Emacs to some extent but Emacs doesn't exist in a vacuum. If you use it on Windows you will miss out a lot: convenience (everyone assumes you're on some Unix); you miss out culture and technology. And especially if you are into C - which is the number one *system* programming language. It shares history with UNIX, not to mention it is the language the system is written in (including today's Linux). There is no reason to use Windows for no reason, only do it if your family is starving or your job is super-exciting (like some science project where some specific software is Windows-only and too intense for wine and the like - but then you can still beam the results to your Linux box and use Emacs to compile the report - like I always said, computing is creative :)) -- underground experts united