From: Bill Burdick <bill.burdick@gmail.com>
To: fabrice.popineau@centralesupelec.fr,
Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>,
Grant Rettke <gcr@wisdomandwonder.com>,
Emacs Org mode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Emacs+org on Windows 7 pro
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 10:38:05 +0000 [thread overview]
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I switched from Cygwin to Msys2 a year or two ago and it's been very good.
The pacman-based package management is very good. The only thing to watch
out for is that there are actually 2 gcc suites and if you want to build
automake projects (like many open source projects), you'll want to be using
the Mingw gcc and NOT the Msys gcc. ConEmu is a great terminal program to
use in conjunction with Msys2
I also recommend opinionated Emacs distros. I used to use Prelude but
I've been using Spacemacs (in Emacs mode) for quite a while, now. I like
Spacemacs because your loaded packages are explicitly in your .spacemacs
file and it's easy to reconstruct which packages you have loaded from that.
-- Bill
On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 12:25 PM Fabrice Popineau <
fabrice.popineau@supelec.fr> wrote:
> 2016-08-23 10:24 GMT+02:00 Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>:
>
>> On Tuesday, 23 Aug 2016 at 01:34, Grant Rettke wrote:
>> > I found Cygwin to make things more difficult for Emacs so I installed
>> > the plain old Windows Emacs and did the following:
>> >
>> > https://github.com/grettke/help/blob/master/help.md#windows
>>
>> Thanks. I'll check this out.
>>
>> If I ever have to use a Windows system at all, I want bash & emacs and
>> cygwin makes it very easy (for me).
>
>
> I always found Cygwin to be a PIA when working under Windows.
> I vastly prefer to use msys2+mingw64. Emacs 25 compiles out of the box
> as a native w64 app and you get bash + all the tools you may want.
> My $0.02
>
> Fabrice
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-23 10:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-22 14:55 Emacs+org on Windows 7 pro Eric S Fraga
2016-08-22 22:13 ` John Kitchin
2016-08-23 16:19 ` Axel Kielhorn
2016-08-23 18:06 ` John Kitchin
2016-08-23 18:53 ` Axel Kielhorn
2016-08-23 19:07 ` John Kitchin
2016-08-23 1:34 ` Grant Rettke
[not found] ` <b31cb56e9d4b4299a920ad78ac165d50@HE1PR01MB1898.eurprd01.prod.exchangelabs.com>
2016-08-23 8:22 ` Eric S Fraga
[not found] ` <624522332984433fa3e4d5e9d325db31@HE1PR01MB1898.eurprd01.prod.exchangelabs.com>
2016-08-23 8:24 ` Eric S Fraga
2016-08-23 9:21 ` Fabrice Popineau
2016-08-23 10:38 ` Bill Burdick [this message]
[not found] ` <d9cd3b2de19546a091a74795e76fa118@HE1PR01MB1898.eurprd01.prod.exchangelabs.com>
2016-08-23 10:00 ` Eric S Fraga
2016-08-23 13:12 ` John Kitchin
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