From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: rustom Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs on windows Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 06:57:04 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <377d33e4-15f7-4b13-a37a-231f84f603b6@i72g2000hsd.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1202744488 10892 80.91.229.12 (11 Feb 2008 15:41:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:41:28 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 11 16:41:48 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JOamp-0004d7-C2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:41:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JOamM-0004Np-2j for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:41:10 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!l16g2000hsh.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 27 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 59.95.20.141 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1202741825 3070 127.0.0.1 (11 Feb 2008 14:57:05 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:57:05 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: l16g2000hsh.googlegroups.com; posting-host=59.95.20.141; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070508 Iceweasel/2.0.0.4 (Debian-2.0.0.4-0etch1), gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:156042 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:51417 Archived-At: On Feb 11, 5:13 pm, Sven Utcke wrote: > > Have a look athttp://www.cam.hi-ho.ne.jp/oishi/indexen.html--- > wouldn't know how to use Windows without it! Essentially it adds > Emacs Keybindings to _all_ Windows programs (can be disabled on a > per-program basis, of course, and also configured per program). > > In fact, I now wish something like this would exist for Linux :-) > > Hope this helps --- it certainly helped me! > Thanks Sven. XKeymacs certainly looks interesting. But my problem with emacs on windows is not primarily with key-bindings. Its that the general linux paradigm does not work. Here are some egs. - paths dont make sense (to me) -- sometimes spaces, sometimes no spaces, sometimes '/' sometimes '\' - whats the equivalent of $HOME $PATH etc? It seems to have some. But I cant make sense of it - I cant find the fonts I use in linux - M-x shell seems broken -- puts all kinds of control characters - large nos of utilities used from inside emacs -- locate, man etc dont work. Expecting man on windows is of course too much but locate? And windows explorer find never finds me the stuff I am looking for.