From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de (H. Dieter Wilhelm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs for Windows Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 20:46:33 +0200 Organization: The Church of Emacs Message-ID: <87siivbw52.fsf@vsl28t2g.ww011> References: <874mvcc1jh.fsf@gmail.com> <83d2a0bfwu.fsf@gnu.org> <83y4so9jjy.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1412966843 28617 80.91.229.3 (10 Oct 2014 18:47:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 18:47:23 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 10 20:47:16 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 1XcfDe-0000Ky-W3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 20:47:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50389 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XcfDe-00087n-Kh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 14:47:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42679) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XcfDJ-0007xC-De for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 14:46:59 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XcfDD-00033a-Hn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 14:46:53 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:57426) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XcfDD-00033C-Aw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 14:46:47 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XcfDC-00005L-A2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 20:46:46 +0200 Original-Received: from p57acdf27.dip0.t-ipconnect.de ([87.172.223.39]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 20:46:46 +0200 Original-Received: from dieter by p57acdf27.dip0.t-ipconnect.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 20:46:46 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p57acdf27.dip0.t-ipconnect.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.94 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:oDczinZXKEmDJwdA9nOHpbQIRhU= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:100392 Archived-At: Glenn Morris writes: > Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> I definitely don't mean one that's present out of the box. But one that >> people can easily install once and then use it to >> install/uninstall/update Emacs and whatever other Free Software >> she wants. > > The standard answer is Cygwin; but some people are apparently against it. Nothing against Cygwin, tried it once and prefer installing some real Gnu/Linux system under a Windows VM. -- Best wishes H. Dieter Wilhelm Darmstadt, Germany