From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Phillip Lord" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: GNU Emacs on Windows system, viable ? Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2018 06:15:17 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1541240095 29299 195.159.176.226 (3 Nov 2018 10:14:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2018 10:14:55 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.5.2 [SVN] Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" To: "Xavier Maillard" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 03 11:14:51 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gIsx7-0007Uq-8x for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Nov 2018 11:14:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55000 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gIszD-0004CH-LF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Nov 2018 06:16:59 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42329) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gIsyd-0004BE-Cv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Nov 2018 06:16:28 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gIsyK-0005ht-Bv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Nov 2018 06:16:11 -0400 Original-Received: from cloud103.planethippo.com ([78.129.138.110]:56496) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gIsyJ-0004s3-Uf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Nov 2018 06:16:04 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=russet.org.uk; s=default; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type: MIME-Version:Cc:To:From:Subject:Date:References:In-Reply-To:Message-ID:Sender :Reply-To:Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From: Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:List-Id:List-Help: List-Unsubscribe:List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=adtb4q6Rqn4h7frSOP5+XtAdUx/pvNgv6+cQbJsHJlI=; b=d1UGnVVdMHTqDNcL/sD2769cjp MzM/EA2VtKdqDUtZ2btukH6VCddXDrsePccBJwEmMYHHEIj8oLhi/ZJ31o75BjdLSn7LKQ9kyGhL6 orMby03R9aggEGOB6NeE4jPvJhjA16hQnrHdCqY/YRvSR6EpcpEDMMLK3BaUjqCff0wWDLwZrJzav sIgYa6AquMHh4/Xh78n+ES3mnlfy8TWuHx/OxzVwzlUw46QEde7Mu8ga1aoX0ESlwVtD/cg0wT1Cy vwJUNw1YzMb74NVhjS7boTvlZAAmkuVDDlH8+PpMJmCeN49UCzlwIs2AOQAkWFSdoGGw+4wLSSxNd A722PmpA==; Original-Received: from [::1] (port=58820 helo=cloud103.planethippo.com) by cloud103.planethippo.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.91) (envelope-from ) id 1gIsxZ-000uHi-Ue; Sat, 03 Nov 2018 06:15:18 -0400 Original-Received: from 82.21.43.186 ([82.21.43.186]) (SquirrelMail authenticated user phillip.lord@russet.org.uk) by cloud103.planethippo.com with HTTP; Sat, 3 Nov 2018 06:15:17 -0400 In-Reply-To: X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - cloud103.planethippo.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - gnu.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - russet.org.uk X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: cloud103.planethippo.com: authenticated_id: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk X-Authenticated-Sender: cloud103.planethippo.com: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 78.129.138.110 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:118574 Archived-At: 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 > >