From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rustom Mody Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Ediff error -- Permission denied (Win8) Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2013 21:44:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1375418716 6211 80.91.229.3 (2 Aug 2013 04:45:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2013 04:45:16 +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 Aug 02 06:45:19 2013 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 1V57Es-0007jD-FL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Aug 2013 06:45:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52200 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V57Er-0008JZ-UM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Aug 2013 00:45:17 -0400 X-Received: by 10.180.187.238 with SMTP id fv14mr308000wic.0.1375418664929; Thu, 01 Aug 2013 21:44:24 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.50.28.78 with SMTP id z14mr33982igg.5.1375418664757; Thu, 01 Aug 2013 21:44:24 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!g3no3884746wic.0!news-out.google.com!cc8ni6102wib.1!nntp.google.com!fx3no551015qab.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=59.95.28.235; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 59.95.28.235 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 04:44:24 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:200389 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:92656 Archived-At: On Friday, August 2, 2013 5:09:16 AM UTC+5:30, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > I wish I had Unix running on my machine! > > Do you need help with that? Since this seems to be such a FAQ, attempting to say something. Hopefully more windows-aware folks will amend. Many people using windows find need for unix-ish facilities/features/feel. Setting up native windows emacs is a first (but not last!) step. cygwin is considered a full-featured but somewhat heavyweight answer to this need mingw is a somewhat lighter solution. Some comparison here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/771756/what-is-the-difference-between-cygwin-and-mingw You can also set up diff/grep etc alone. [I believe Eli has posted the link a few days back...] Other solutions: Win+Linux side-by-side: Make your system multibootable with grub. This is an old solution. In my most recent bundled-with-win-8 laptop, copying files from ubuntu and windows is not working as it used to. Seems to be a uefi/gpt problem. Windows-inside-linux: wubi can be installed as a normal windows program inside windows and was quite popular but again seems to be suffering gpt/uefi related problems. Linux-in-VM-in-windows: I know some friends who swear by VMware. No experience myself. Wine: windows emulator inside linux. Will run many (not all!) windows programs on a vanilla gnu/linux