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Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com> writes:

>> I am going to take a plunge into WinEmacs, see if it behaves any
>> better [regarding cursor warpage], and see how well it works with
>> Tramp.
>
> Tramp seems to work fine. I can't use things like ediff-revision
> though, as there is no 'diff' command. Is there an alternative other
> than installing Cygwin...

I've used "unxutils" from Sourceforge, it has a bunch of Unix commands
including diff but not recently. Thing is, these are 2003 vintage and
32-bits only. Although I think they should work with 64-bit Emacs and
Windows 10.