Re: [Chicken-users] any Windows Emacs haters here?

[Ivan Raikov]

  Have you tried the regular Emacs MinGW port? I have not used Emacs
under Windows in a very long time, but I know that there is a package
for Emacs in the mingwPORT system.

    -Ivan


"Brandon J. Van Every" <address@hidden> writes:

> I've had it with XEmacs, since by default it doesn't even indent my C
> code properly.  I'm not about to chase around its stupid configuration
> magic invocations anymore.  Plus, I'm totally sick of it crashing 20%
> of the time I do a Find, and I'm not interested in becoming a bug
> tester / reporter for yet another open source project right now.  At
> least, not one I like as little as XEmacs.
>
> I tried to fire up Eclipse, but it barfed on me having both a Cygwin
> and a MinGW installation.  I am bored with stuff that doesn't care
> much about MinGW and doesn't show evidence of thorough testing.
>
> So, I'm looking at modifying one of the open source MinGW IDEs to
> support Chicken and CMake.  I'm curious if this approach to life has
> any appeal for anyone around here.  Or am I the only Windows MinGW
> guy?  I'm just curious how other people have been getting by, and if
> you're as sick of clumsy / broken toolchains as I am.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Brandon Van Every