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Re: [O] Slow usage of capture templates


From: Johan Ekh
Subject: Re: [O] Slow usage of capture templates
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2017 11:20:17 +0200

Thanks Fabrice!
I will continue to evaluate the WSL as I now have it installed and it seems to work. I think my strategy will be to try both the native windows version and the Ubuntu version of my key applications and just see which one works best for me. I installed XMing for X server and it seems to work well.

BR / Johan

On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 10:00 AM, Fabrice Popineau <address@hidden> wrote:


2017-08-03 0:12 GMT+02:00 Tim Cross <address@hidden>:
Probably no real help, but win10 is (or soon will be) bundling in bash
shell, which may address many of the reasons to use Cygwin. From posts
I've seen on a number of lists, I would not be surprised to see cygwin
slowly decline into obscurity. I see little interest in the emacs devel
list for cygwin since the native windows version has matured (and it has
been suggested, is the largest emacs user base).

I am a Windows user (very long time) and Cygwin has never been an option to me.
Native Emacs works pretty well under Windows. 
There is only one drawback: it is slow (slower than linux) at running
external processes and some emacs packages do that pretty heavily (ivy/counsel, flycheck).
I have seen reports of slower startup times with the native Windows emacs than with Linux, however I have not
been able to reproduce them (for example using helm default config or spacemacs config).

Depending on wheter you use a 32 bits emacs or a 64 bits emacs, you may want to add
or 64 bits Gnu utilities (http://www.msys2.org/, provides a much better environment than Cygwin in my opinion)

Or you may want to try the new WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux, as described by Tim) 
which provides a full Ubuntu distribution without the penalty for running external processes, 
and without the penalty of running a VM.
WSL is pretty impressive and emacs works pretty well once you get a good X server (like MobaXTerm).

Fabrice


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