Re: [OT] Reading Emacs Tutorials

["B. T. Raven" <nihil@nihilo.net>]

Lennart Borgman wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 7:42 AM, Byung-Hee HWANG <bh@izb.knu.ac.kr> wrote:
>> Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Ronnie Collinson
>>> <notthinking@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Contribution and communication is always important for any community based
>>>> project. My further recommendiation would be to look at quite a few emacs
>>>> related blogs, they often have little tid-bits which ussually quite short.
>>> Might be a good idea. I wonder what the best way to find them is. On
>>> EmacsWiki there are a lot of users that links to their blogs. Maybe
>>> that is a good way?
>> As you commented above, i'll do best study for me and emacs
>> family within that ways. Thank you for kind and valuable replies,
>> indeed..;;
> 
> One thing I forgot to mention is that learning Emacs on ms windows is
> a bit more difficult because you might not have the external programs
> needed for useful commands like rgrep etc. I have packed together a
> distribution that includes those programs, see
> 
>   http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsW32
> 
> So if anyone reading this is using ms windows this might be a good way
> to learn about Emacs. This might be a first step on the road to
> GNU/Linux ...
> 
> 

Lennart,

Will your rgrep work with the standard Emacs w32 build? I have most of 
the gnuwin32 utilities but things like rgrep are just shell scripts like:

#!/bin/sh

exec grep -r "$@"

which I can make into ms batch files but then I don't know what to do 
with them.  Would I be able to use your rgrep in my setup? Can it be 
stripped out of the Emacsw32 stuff? I got web-browser printing from you 
and that works fine.