From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Mastro Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs for Windows Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2014 20:13:46 -0700 Message-ID: References: <874mvcc1jh.fsf@gmail.com> <87a954ivfb.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <8738awbpuw.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1412910867 20230 80.91.229.3 (10 Oct 2014 03:14:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 03:14:27 +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 05:14:19 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 1XcQeo-0001d0-U0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 05:14:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45985 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XcQeo-0000aw-8B for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2014 23:14:18 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:32893) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XcQed-0000ag-Sa for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2014 23:14:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XcQec-0001z1-VX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2014 23:14:07 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-oi0-x231.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4003:c06::231]:43848) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XcQec-0001ys-QI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2014 23:14:06 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-oi0-f49.google.com with SMTP id a3so5121947oib.8 for ; Thu, 09 Oct 2014 20:14:06 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :content-type; bh=bGZ/9GlIYZXR3wemek8vg5Gnp4MvXOE1DkoHJa6U/1g=; b=cifTR8GQFeGkJabUgqmOZlwVlohU1qNI0BIpKNjEAXkEykAZtAl96kqDz5iZmeQvht GN2MJ/IA+iDpEMCQFIC0WDUl0BnaZi+vs45T2vl+vYR63+XpoHt8ljj4MNq1o2ZNHeYQ LPd5sco8JuwtlbKR/iXTEZ/sdo+papkECihNxYZBCON1ULjbPa11dtYI45VLk2KltsRY reEJLjJ0AU+0cLOWwH2Vu3L3HlC3J2xuTRYB5qSz5BBKo/mvKQ/VzHaKl1XOf60jG7eU MJkfFjzPpOz5xkUDRbdilYAfwR2MiYuMqwP99Ce5oN+q+3/PWujIXHPiJRCiVCET/sVj qGCw== X-Received: by 10.60.125.35 with SMTP id mn3mr1988676oeb.28.1412910846200; Thu, 09 Oct 2014 20:14:06 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.76.125.194 with HTTP; Thu, 9 Oct 2014 20:13:46 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <8738awbpuw.fsf@gmail.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:4003:c06::231 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 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:100365 Archived-At: Hi all, E Sabof wrote: > Last time I checked (+1 year ago),it came with an outdated Emacs > version, and it's utilities had interoperability issues with GNU > binaries. Too much time has passed for me to remember the specifics. When I have to use Windows (at work), I use the "normal" (i.e. non-Cygwin) build of Emacs, but I make heavy use of Cygwin for the shell and all the standard command line tools. The main elements of my configuration are: - Make c:\ Cygwin's root (I think I got this from a Steve Yegge article) - In init.el, add /bin to "PATH" and `exec-path' - Set each of these to Cygwin's ZSH/Bash/whatever: - "SHELL" - `shell-file-name' - `explicit-shell-file-name' - `ediff-shell' I also set `null-device' to "/dev/null", though I don't remember why. I've been very happy with the result. I haven't run into any real interoperability issues, though of course YMMV. -- john