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Re: "Best" way to run on Windows XP
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Jason Dufair |
Subject: |
Re: "Best" way to run on Windows XP |
Date: |
Mon, 25 Jul 2005 11:50:53 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.2 (cygwin) |
"Chris Lott" <Chris.Lott@gmail.com> writes:
> Is the "best" way to run emacs on Windows XP to use the Native XP build
> or the Cygwin? By "best" I mean: stable, able to run elisp code from
> emacs.sources, and able to effectively use external tools like grep,
> diff, etc... ?
I've spent a lot of time in both environments, and IMO, if you want
something that "just works" (i.e. feels like Emacs on *nix), go for the
Cygwin port. It's well maintained, and with Cygwin/X in multiwindow
mode, you'll feel like home.
--
Jason Dufair - jase@dufair.org
http://www.dufair.org/
"I would never do crack...
I would never do a drug named after a part of my own ass, okay?"
-- Denis Leary.
- Re: "Best" way to run on Windows XP, (continued)
- Re: "Best" way to run on Windows XP, Jason Rumney, 2005/07/24
- Re: Best way to run on Windows XP, Ehud Karni, 2005/07/25
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- Re: Best way to run on Windows XP, Klaus Berndl, 2005/07/25
- Re: Best way to run on Windows XP, Eli Zaretskii, 2005/07/25
- Re: Best way to run on Windows XP, J. David Boyd, 2005/07/25
- Re: Best way to run on Windows XP, Eli Zaretskii, 2005/07/26
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- Re: Best way to run on Windows XP, Klaus Berndl, 2005/07/28
Re: "Best" way to run on Windows XP, Eli Zaretskii, 2005/07/24
Re: "Best" way to run on Windows XP,
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Re: "Best" way to run on Windows XP, Peter Lee, 2005/07/25