GNU Emacs on Windows system, viable ?

GNU Emacs on Windows system, viable ?

[Xavier Maillard]

Heya,

Due to some changes on my laptop setup, I have to (maybe temporarily) switchover to MS system fulltime.
The sole question I have is : is using GNU Emacs on Microsoft OS is Something easy ; I mean, is RMAIL functionning on MS ?

A friend of mine told me to use chocolatery to install all my Tools (here it means : Emacs, clojure dev environnment, etc).

Thanks for your feedback.

Optionnal question : will a RMAIL file coming from my old (dead) computer running GNU/linux be working as is directly on my MS box ?

Thank you for your help

Xavier

Re: GNU Emacs on Windows system, viable ?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Xavier Maillard <xavier@maillard.im>
> Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2018 21:50:07 +0100
> 
> The sole question I have is : is using GNU Emacs on Microsoft OS is Something easy ; I mean, is RMAIL functionning on MS ?

I'm writing this in Rmail on Windows.

> Optionnal question : will a RMAIL file coming from my old (dead) computer running GNU/linux be working as is directly on my MS box ?

Yes.

RE: GNU Emacs on Windows system, viable ?

[Xavier Maillard]

Hello,

>> From: Xavier Maillard <xavier@maillard.im>
>> Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2018 21:50:07 +0100
>> 
>> The sole question I have is : is using GNU Emacs on Microsoft OS is Something easy ; I mean, is RMAIL >> functionning on MS ?

>I'm writing this in Rmail on Windows.

Good ! Do you use a specific GNU Emacs flavour (ie. Cygwin or choco or Something else ? ) ?

>> Optionnal question : will a RMAIL file coming from my old (dead) computer running GNU/linux be working as is directly on my MS box ?

>Yes.

I tried it with a small file and it seems it works perfectly ! That’s nice !

Re: GNU Emacs on Windows system, viable ?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Xavier Maillard <xavier@maillard.im>
> Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2018 23:04:02 +0100
> 
> >I'm writing this in Rmail on Windows.
> 
> Good ! Do you use a specific GNU Emacs flavour (ie. Cygwin or choco or Something else ? ) ?

A native MS-Windows build using MinGW.

Re: GNU Emacs on Windows system, viable ?

[Phillip Lord]

If you are prepared to live on the bleeding edge, you might want to try
the Emacs-27 pre-tests which come with pretty much all the tools included.



On Wed, October 31, 2018 4:50 pm, Xavier Maillard wrote:
> Heya,
>
>
> Due to some changes on my laptop setup, I have to (maybe temporarily)
> switchover to MS system fulltime. The sole question I have is : is using
> GNU Emacs on Microsoft OS is Something easy ; I mean, is RMAIL
> functionning on MS ?
>
> A friend of mine told me to use chocolatery to install all my Tools (here
> it means : Emacs, clojure dev environnment, etc).
>
> Thanks for your feedback.
>
>
> Optionnal question : will a RMAIL file coming from my old (dead) computer
> running GNU/linux be working as is directly on my MS box ?
>
> Thank you for your help
>
>
> Xavier
>
>