I switched from Cygwin to Msys2 a year or two ago and it's been very good. The pacman-based package management is very good. The only thing to watch out for is that there are actually 2 gcc suites and if you want to build automake projects (like many open source projects), you'll want to be using the Mingw gcc and NOT the Msys gcc. ConEmu is a great terminal program to use in conjunction with Msys2
I also recommend opinionated Emacs distros. I used to use Prelude but I've been using Spacemacs (in Emacs mode) for quite a while, now. I like Spacemacs because your loaded packages are explicitly in your .spacemacs file and it's easy to reconstruct which packages you have loaded from that. -- Bill On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 12:25 PM Fabrice Popineau < fabrice.popin...@supelec.fr> wrote: > 2016-08-23 10:24 GMT+02:00 Eric S Fraga <e.fr...@ucl.ac.uk>: > >> On Tuesday, 23 Aug 2016 at 01:34, Grant Rettke wrote: >> > I found Cygwin to make things more difficult for Emacs so I installed >> > the plain old Windows Emacs and did the following: >> > >> > https://github.com/grettke/help/blob/master/help.md#windows >> >> Thanks. I'll check this out. >> >> If I ever have to use a Windows system at all, I want bash & emacs and >> cygwin makes it very easy (for me). > > > I always found Cygwin to be a PIA when working under Windows. > I vastly prefer to use msys2+mingw64. Emacs 25 compiles out of the box > as a native w64 app and you get bash + all the tools you may want. > My $0.02 > > Fabrice > >
