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Re: "Best" way to run on Windows XP


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: "Best" way to run on Windows XP
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 18:47:43 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)

"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 think native build plus MSYS <URL:http://www.mingw.org/msys.shtml>
is a pretty good combination, but I have not actively tried it myself,
not being a Windows user.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum


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